| Election Name: | 1967 Cleveland mayoral election |
| Country: | Cleveland |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Year: | 1965 |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
| Election Date: | November 7, 1967 |
| Nominee1: | Carl Stokes |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote1: | 129,318 |
| Percentage1: | 50.36% |
| Nominee2: | Seth Taft |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 127,467 |
| Percentage2: | 49.64% |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Ralph S. Locher |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Carl Stokes |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The Cleveland mayoral election of 1967 saw the election of Carl Stokes.
Stokes was the first elected African American mayor of a major American city (Cleveland was, at the time, the ninth largest city in the United States).[1] [2] His election came alongside the election of Richard G. Hatcher in the 1967 Gary, Indiana, mayoral election. Together, these were the first elections of African-Americans as mayors of cities over 100,000.[3] Stoke's election came in a city which was, at the time, 68% white.[2]
Primaries were held on October 3.
Stokes unseated incumbent mayor Ralph S. Locher in the Democratic Party primary.