1955 Tampa mayoral election

none January 2025 January 2025 1955 Tampa mayoral election Florida Flag of Tampa, Florida.svg presidential no 1947 Tampa mayoral election 1947 1956 Tampa mayoral special election 1956 October 11, 1955 Curtis Hixon File:3x4.svg Nonpartisan 25,412 52.57% c0c0c0 Nick Nuccio File:Nick Nuccio official portrait.jpg Nonpartisan 16,551 34.24% c0c0c0 Stu Phillips File:3x4.svg Nonpartisan 6,374 13.19% c0c0c0 Mayor Curtis Hixon Nonpartisan Curtis Hixon Nonpartisan The 1955 Tampa mayoral election was held on October 11, 1955. This was the first election after the abolition of the White Municipal Party, a white supremacist organization which controlled city elections in Tampa as a quasi-private, quasi-public entity from 1910 to 1953.Kerstein Robert J. Politics and Growth in Twentieth-Century Tampa 2001 103–06 University Press of Florida Gainesville, Florida 0-8130-2083-2 https://archive.org/details/politicsgrowthin0000kers/page/104/mode/2up July 6, 2025Iorio Pam 2001 Colorless Primaries: Tampa's White Municipal Party https://www.jstor.org/stable/30150855 The Florida Historical Quarterly 79 3 297 July 6, 2025 Incumbent Mayor Curtis Hixon ran for re-election to a fourth term. He was challenged by County Commissioner Nick Nuccio and Stu Phillips, a member of the City Board of Representatives. Hixon defeated both candidates by a wide margin, winning 53 percent of the vote to Nuccio's 34 percent and Phillips's 13 percent, avoiding the need for a runoff election. However, Hixon died prior to the end of his fourth term, triggering a special election in 1956. Candidates Curtis Hixon, incumbent mayorHixon Confirms He Will Again Seek Mayoralty Tampa Times June 27, 1955 Tampa, Florida 3 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-times/176046389/ July 6, 2025 Nick Nuccio, Hillsborough County commissionerNuccio Runs For Mayor; Tells Plans The Tampa Tribune May 1, 1955 Tampa, Florida 1 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/176046308/ July 6, 2025 Stu Phillips, member of the City Board of RepresentativesS. N. (Stu) Phillips, Candidate For Mayor, Retires On Pension The Tampa Tribune July 2, 1955 Tampa, Florida 17 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune/176046457/ July 6, 2025 Results 1955 Tampa mayoral electionElection of 10/11/1955 Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections http://votehillsborough.org/ERSummary.aspx?eid=-1981 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101201092715/http://votehillsborough.org/ERSummary.aspx?eid=-1981 December 1, 2010 July 6, 2025 Curtis Hixon (inc.) Nonpartisan candidate 25,412 52.57% Nick Nuccio Nonpartisan candidate 16,551 34.24% Stu Phillips Nonpartisan candidate 6,374 13.19% 48,337 100.00% References 1955 election 1955 Tampa Category:20th century in Tampa, Florida