On May 3, Jordan Marlowe, Mayor of Newberry, Florida, announced that he had switched his registration from Libertarian to Forward. Marlowe had just been re-elected the previous month. Newberry city elections are non-partisan.

Newberry was first elected in 2017, when he had been a Democrat. He had switched to the Libertarian Party in 2019, when he was re-elected. He was also re-elected while a Libertarian in 2021. In all four of his elections, he was unopposed. The April 11, 2023 city election was cancelled when no one filed to run against the incumbents for any city office.

Newberry is in Alachua County, and has a populatioin of 7,342.

He is the Foward Party’s second Mayor. In November 2021, Dan Rosenthal had been elected First Selectman of Newtown, Connecticut. Rosenthal also won unopposed. “First Selectman” is the equivalent of Mayor in Newtown.