Incumbent Hurricane mayor defeated in 2025 election after turbulent race

HURRICANE, Utah (ABC4) — Hurricane Mayor Nanette Billings did not win reelection on Election Night, losing to her opponent Clark Fawcett.

The race for Hurricane mayor was between incumbent Nanette Billings and Clark Fawcett, who is currently serving on the Hurricane city council and who worked as the City Manager for over 37 years.

Fawcett received 3,256 votes and Billings received 1,556 votes.

Fawcett won by a margin of more than 30 percentage points, which came after a heated campaign where Billings was accused of election interference after she removed signs placed by another candidate.

In July, before the primary election, signs placed by primary candidate Gary Sanders that simply read “Hurricane deserves better” were removed. After initially denying it, Billings later admitted to removing the signs.

Another candidate in the primary, Rick Crow, filed a request for an investigation into potential election interference with the Attorney General’s Office, but the AG’s office found did nothing illegal. Utah law requires political signage to be associated with a candidate or ballot initiative, and the “Hurricane deserves better” signs were not explicitly linked to any candidate.

The sign issue seems to have had at least some impact on the election, as Sanders and Crow were both defeated in the primary, and now Billings lost the general election, though of course it’s impossible to know just how important it was to the broader results.

Billings began her term as Hurricane mayor in 2021, and Fawcett will become mayor in 2026.