DETROIT (WXYZ) - Mayor Dave Bing will get the chance to incorporate the kind of change he has promised over an entire term in office by winning Detroit’s mayoral election Tuesday night, defeating his opponent Tom Barrow and earning a four-year mandate from voters.
WXYZ.com, the WXYZ Twitter account, and Action News were the first area media to announce Bing's victory.
With 100% of precincts reporting, Bing wins by a margin of 58% to 42% over Barrow.
Pre-election polls showed Bing held a wide lead in the race.
The WXYZ/EPIC-MRA poll showed Bing with 46 percent of the vote compared to Barrow’s 24 percent. It also said 25 percent of voters still were undecided heading into election day and 5 percent were listed as “other.”
Bing’s supporters assembled at the Doubletree Resort in downtown Detroit to celebrate victory, while only a handful of Barrow supporters gathered at his post-election headquarters at the Corktown International Gateway in Detroit.
