Translation: Farah Safieddine - Bill Bazi won the mayor of Dearborn Heights by a large margin over his challenger, Mayor Denis Malinowski Maxwell, with 72% to 28% of the total vote.
Bazi, a Lebanese immigrant, also managed to win 73% of the vote for a partial term ending this year, with the position being filled by Ms Malinowski Maxwell, 58, temporarily according to council rules following the death of Mayor Daniel Balitko from the coronavirus last December. He secured the temporary position in January after the city council voted four to three. Now he has a full four-year term next, to be the first Muslim-American of Arab descent to hold the highest political office in the city, of which Arab Americans make up more than 32% of the population, according to 2019 census data.
font-size: medium;">Click On Detroit reports that Mr. Bazi, who served in the US Navy, is one of three Arab-American Muslims elected to mayor Tuesday in cities across Michigan, Hamtramck, which was won by 42-year-old right-wing Amir Ghaleb. , and Dearborn, where Abdullah Hammoud, 31, won for parents of immigrants from Lebanon.
Dearborn Heights faces infrastructure and flood challenges, but has seen a 10% rise in population over the past decade to 63,292, with increasing numbers of Arab immigrants moving in from Dearborn and other cities.
In the city council race, six candidates competed for four seats for a four-year term, and two candidates competed for a partial term.
Mo Beydoun won the race for a partial term with 70% of the vote, according to Wayne County results. Bob Constan, Tom Winsel, Nancy Breyer and Hassan Ahmed won all four council seats for a full term.
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