Year: 2024
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Voters in Arizona to decide ballot measure on changing minimum wage for tipped workers
Voters in Arizona will decide on a constitutional amendment to allow businesses to pay tipped employees 25% less per hour than the minimum wage. The amendment would allow for tipped workers to be paid 25% less per hour than the minimum wage if any tips received by the employee were not less than the minimum…
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Fifty-two candidates are running in primary elections for Virginia’s 11 U.S. House districts this year—the most in the last 10 years
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Virginia was April 4, 2024. Fifty-two candidates are running for Virginia’s 11 U.S. House districts, including 33 Democrats and 19 Republicans. That’s an average of 4.73 candidates per district. Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings: Virginia and Oklahoma are holding primaries on…
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Five primaries are contested in Wisconsin this year—the fewest in the last 10 years
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Wisconsin was June 3, 2024. Twenty-three candidates are running for Wisconsin’s eight U.S. House districts, including 11 Democrats and 12 Republicans. That’s an average of 2.88 candidates per district. There were 2.75 candidates per district in 2022, 2.88 candidates per district in 2020, and 3.13…
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Berkley, Seaman advance to November 5 Las Vegas mayoral election runoff
Thirteen candidates ran in the nonpartisan primary for Las Vegas mayor on June 11, 2024. Shelley Berkley and Victoria Seaman were the top two vote-getters, and they advanced to a general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, because no candidate received a majority of the vote. Throughout the race, Berkley, Seaman, and Cedric Crear led…
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Hawaii has 37 contested state legislative primaries in 2024: What to know
Hawaii has 37 contested state legislative primaries on August 10, 2024. There are 146 candidates, including 96 Democrats and 50 Republicans, running for 63 seats in the state legislature. The average number of total primary candidates in Hawaii from 2010 to 2024 was 158.5. Among them are 58 total incumbents, and 19 incumbents facing a…
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Fifty-nine candidates are running for New York’s 26 U.S. House districts—the fewest since 2014
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in New York was April 4, 2024. Fifty-nine candidates are running for New York’s 26 U.S. House districts, including 32 Democrats and 27 Republicans. That’s an average of 2.27 candidates per district. There were 4.12 candidates per district in 2022, 4.00 candidates per district in 2020, and…
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One member of Congress has announced his retirement since May 22
Fifty-three members of Congress—eight senators and 45 representatives—have announced they will not seek re-election this year. Since our May 22 update on congressional incumbents not seeking re-election, Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) announced his retirement from the House. Ballotpedia does not include incumbents leaving office early in our analysis of incumbents not running for re-election. If…
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Montanans for Election Reform submit signatures for a pair of initiatives establishing a top-four primary system and majority vote requirement
Montanans for Election Reform submitted signatures on June 13 for a pair of initiatives that would amend the Montana Constitution to change the state’s electoral system. Initiative CI-126 would create a top-four primary system for elections for governor, lieutenant governor, state executives, state legislators, and congressional offices. Under the system, every candidate would run in…
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SCOTUS dismisses case challenging FDA’s regulatory actions related to abortion pill
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 2024, unanimously held in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulatory actions related to approved use conditions of mifepristone—a drug used in medication abortions. The FDA approved the drug mifepristone in 2000…