Year: 2024
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Incumbent Jacqueline Porter wins re-election to Tallahassee City Commission; incumbent Curtis Richardson and Dorothy Inman-Johnson advance to general election
Incumbent Jacqueline Porter won the nonpartisan primary for Tallahassee City Commission Seat 1 outright on Aug. 20, 2024. Incumbent Curtis Richardson and Dorothy Inman-Johnson advanced to the general election on Nov. 5, 2024, for Seat 2. Seven candidates ran for two seats on the Tallahassee City Commission in nonpartisan primaries on Aug. 20, 2024. Four…
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Rosie Cordero-Stutz (R) won the Republican primary election for Miami-Dade County Sheriff
Rosie Cordero-Stutz (R) won the Republican primary election for Miami-Dade County Sheriff on August 20, 2024. Eleven candidates ran in the election. Three led in fundraising, endorsements, and media attention: Cordero-Stutz, Mario Knapp (R), and Joe Sanchez (R). The general election is the first time Miami-Dade County, Florida, will elect a sheriff since 1966, when…
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Open state legislative seats reach second-lowest point in eight election cycles
This year there are 953 open state legislative seats, guaranteeing at least 16% of all seats will be won by newcomers. This is the second-smallest number and percentage of open seats since Ballotpedia began gathering data in 2010. Ballotpedia uses the number and percentage of open seats to help determine the overall competitiveness of an…
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Update on 2024 state ballot measure certifications: eight new measures, 16 pending signature verification
For 2024, 148 statewide ballot measures have been certified for the ballot in 41 states, which equals the average (148) for this point in the election cycle from 2012 to 2022. The average number of statewide ballot measures certified for an even-numbered year during this period was 157. In 2022, 140 measures were certified for…
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Voters in three states—Florida, North Dakota, and South Dakota, to decide on marijuana legalization initiatives in November
Voters in Florida, North Dakota, and South Dakota will decide on ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana in November. Florida Amendment 3 would legalize marijuana and allow individuals to possess up to three ounces of marijuana (about 85 grams), with up to five grams in the form of concentrate. The initiative would not allow individuals to…
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For a third straight month, the number of members of Congress who have announced retirement so far this year is 53
Fifty-three members of Congress—eight senators and 45 representatives—have announced they will not seek re-election this year. That’s the same number that was reported in our July 15 update on congressional incumbents not seeking re-election. Since then, there have been no new retirement announcements. The last incumbent to announce their retirement was Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.)…
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Arizona voters to decide on competing constitutional amendments addressing primary elections and electoral changes in Nov.
Voters in Arizona will decide on two constitutional amendments, one from the legislature and one citizen-initiated, related to the state’s electoral system on Nov. 5. The ballot measures are Proposition 133 and Proposition 140, and both would address primary elections. Currently, Arizona has semi-closed partisan primaries in which voters, registered with political parties, choose their…