Claim: Democratic Party candidate Gavin Buckley won in the 2017 Annapolis mayoral election.
Evidence: Democratic He was elected in November 2017, defeating incumbent Republican mayor Mike Pantelides, and inaugurated on December 7, 2017. Gavin Buckley (born 8 February 1963) is a South African-born Australian-American Democratic politician, and former restaurateur serving as the Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland.