“To the great people of this city, whether you voted for me or not, I work for you,” Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin told a crowd of his supporters at an election watch party Tuesday night. “And because I work for you, I hear you and I see you, and I want you to know that I’m ready to keep the city moving forward with you.”

First elected as mayor in a 2017 runoff election, and then re-elected in 2021, unofficial results with 67 of 68 precincts reporting showed he received almost 75 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s mayoral election. As Woodfin walked to the podium, he jokingly chanted “threepeat” to celebrate the occasion.

Woodfin also used the opportunity to outline his plans for a third term as mayor of Birmingham.

“We’re going to keep taking illegal guns off the street,” he said. “We

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