Mary Sheffield delivers victory speech.

Declaring "Detoit, we did it," City Council President Mary Sheffield delivered a victory speech Tuesday night, a little more than hour after the Associated Press declared her the victor for mayor over Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr.

She becomes the first woman mayor of Detroit.

At 10:30 p.m., with 99.8 percent of the vote counted, Sheffield was leading Kinloch 77 percent to 23 percent. The vote count was 78,148 to 23,087.

Making her entrance at the victory party at the MGM Grant Detroit to the Temptations' song, "Get Ready," she gave hugs and kisses to those surrounding her including her father, Rev. Horace Sheffield III.

"We built a movement, a movement that has proven that we are stronger when we all stand together as one Detroit," she said. "I'

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