Year: 2025
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California Proposition 50 ranks as the seventh most expensive ballot measure in state history with $139.9 million raised
California Proposition 50 ranks as the seventh most expensive ballot measure, based on total contributions to campaigns supporting and opposing the constitutional amendment. As of Oct. 13, about $139.9 million had been raised for and against Proposition 50. Supporters received $97.7 million, while opponents received $42.2 million. To become the sixth most expensive, surpassing Proposition…
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Janet Mills becomes the 12th Maine governor to run for Senate since 1914
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has announced her candidacy for U.S. Senate against incumbent Susan Collins (R) in 2026. In her launch video, Mills said, “I won’t sit idly by while Maine people suffer and politicians like Susan Collins bend the knee as if this were normal.” Mills is finishing her second term as governor. She…
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Sixteen candidates running for Texas’ 18th Congressional District on Nov. 4
Sixteen candidates are running in the special general election for Texas’ 18th Congressional District on November 4, 2025. Candidates from all parties are running in the election, and if no one wins an outright majority, the top two candidates will advance to a runoff. The winner of this election will be the fourth person to…
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Mentor School Board election to decide majority control of the board
Incumbent Maggie Cook, Robert Haag, Daniel Hardesty, Robert Izzo, Linda O’Brien, and Don Schutz are running in the nonpartisan general election for three at-large seats on the Mentor Exempted Village School District school board on Nov. 4, 2025. The candidates are divided into two slates: the first including two Democratic-affiliated candidates (Cook and Haag) and…
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Emily Dean and Andy Shirtliff to face off in election for Helena mayor
Emily Dean and Andy Shirtliff are running in the nonpartisan general election for mayor of Helena, Montana, on Nov. 4, 2025. Shirtliff and Dean advanced from the nonpartisan primary on Sept. 9, 2025. Shirtliff received 48.33% of the vote and Dean received 36.53%. This election was the first since 2001 in Helena to require a…
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School board incumbents won by larger margins in 2024 than in their previous races
How did school board incumbents fare in 2024 compared to their last elections? Ballotpedia’s core school board election coverage includes the 200 largest school districts by student enrollment and the school districts that overlap the 100 largest cities by population. In 2024, we covered 1,058 seats up for election that fell within our core coverage…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs three bills that may affect speed of election results
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed three bills into law in the first few days of October that change the state’s rules for processing and counting ballots. In some instances, these new laws may result in quicker unofficial election results. California typically takes longer to deliver election results than most other states. This is partly…
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2025 recall success rate behind 15-year average
Out of the 306 elected officials named in recall efforts in 2025, 32 had been removed from office in a recall election as of Oct. 10, a success rate of 10%. That rate is lower than the 17% success rate Ballotpedia tracked from 2010 to 2024. The highest success rate occurred in 2011, when 83…