Karen Love is the Mayor of Gulfport. Gulfport is a small council-manager city, so the mayor is one of five council votes and a city manager handles operations. The mayor presides over council meetings and votes on Gulfport’s budget, tax rate, ordinances and waterfront and development decisions.
Term ending March 2028; not on the ballot in 2026
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Elected March 11, 2025, unseating longtime mayor Sam Henderson. Gulfport’s mayor serves a three-year term and council members two-year terms, and city elections are held in March, not November, so no Gulfport seat is on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot.