Lenny Curry Beating Alvin Brown in New Jacksonville Poll

Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown, the first Democrat to win a mayoral race in that city since Ed Austin in 1991, is in serious trouble according to a poll of likely voters released on Monday.

St. Pete Polls took a poll for Saint PetersBlog showing former Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) Chairman Lenny Curry in good shape against Brown.

The poll finds, for the first round in March, Brown ahead with 38 percent followed by Curry with 31 percent. City Councilman Bill Bishop stands in distant third with 9 percent.

But with the runoff of the top two candidates in May, if nobody gathers 50 percent Curry takes the lead in a head-to-head match-up. In that scenario, Curry takes 45 percent and Brown 42 percent.

The poll of 1,247 likely Jacksonville voters was taken between Jan. 23-25 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent.