Democrat Aftab Pureval won re-election as mayor of Cincinnati on Tuesday, defeating Cory Bowman, a Republican who is the half-brother of Vice President JD Vance.
According to the Associated Press, although the position is officially nonpartisan, Pureval is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Pureval demonstrated strong public support earlier this year, winning more than 80 percent of the vote in May’s all-party municipal primaries. He was a special assistant US attorney and first filed for mayor in 2021 after receiving nearly 66% of the vote.
Aftab Pureval religion
Pureval comes from a mixture of Punjabi and Tibetan backgrounds. Pureval was born to a Punjabi father from India and a Tibetan refugee mother. This implies influences from religious traditions such as Sikhism or Hinduism on his Indian side and Tibetan Buddhism on his mother’s side.
However, his practiced religion is not publicly specified.
