Early voting begins Friday in Miami's most competitive mayoral election in more than 20 years.

From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., early voters in the city can head to the polls to pick between ex-City Manager Emilio Gonzalez and former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins. Early voting will continue through Sunday.

The two candidates shared the majority of votes on Election Day in November — Higgins leading with nearly 36% of the vote, and Gonzalez coming in second with 19.5%. Because no one candidate received more than half the vote, the frontrunners triggered a runoff which ends Dec. 9.

Though the Miami mayor's seat is nonpartisan, both candidates have positioned themselves on opposite sides of the political aisle. Gonzalez, who formerly worked as the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigra

See Full Page