Category: 2024 elections
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Seven candidates are running for four seats on the Cobb County School Board in Georgia
Seven candidates are running for four seats on the Cobb County School District school board in Georgia on Nov. 5, 2024. Republicans hold a 4-3 majority on the seven-member board. Democratic incumbent Leroy Tre Hutchins (D) is running unopposed in District 3. The other three districts up for election each have Republican incumbents, one of…
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Vermont Senate veto-proof supermajority on the line in Nov. 5 elections
Elections for the Vermont State Senate will take place in 2024. The general election is on Nov. 5, 2024. The primary was Aug. 13, 2024. The filing deadline was May 30, 2024. All 30 seats are up for election. Democrats hold 21 seats and Republicans hold seven. Vermont is one of 29 states where one…
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Vermont House veto-proof supermajorty on the line in Nov. 5 elections
Elections for the Vermont House of Representatives will take place in 2024. The general election is on Nov. 5, 2024. The primary was Aug. 13, 2024. The filing deadline was May 30, 2024. All 150 seats are up for election. Democrats hold 107 seats and Republicans hold 37. Vermont is one of 29 states where one party has large…
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36% of last October’s elections were uncontested
Throughout October, Ballotpedia covered 14 elections in 5 states, 36% of which were uncontested. That’s down from September when 86% of the 1,312 covered were uncontested. Ballotpedia defines an uncontested election as one where the number of candidates running is less than or equal to the number of seats up for election. This analysis does…
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All 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives are up for election this year
Elections for the Michigan House of Representatives will take place in 2024. The general election is on Nov. 5, 2024. The primary was Aug. 6, 2024. The filing deadline was Apr. 23, 2024. All 110 seats are up for election. Democrats hold 56 seats and Republicans hold 54. If Republicans gain more than one seat,…
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Supermajority and trifecta status at stake in North Carolina Senate elections
All 50 seats in the North Carolina Senate are up for election on November 5, 2024. Heading into the elections, there are 30 Republicans and 20 Democrats in the Senate. One incumbent lost in the primaries. Click here to learn more. Republicans won a veto-proof majority in the state Senate after the 2022 elections. North…
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Nine presidential tickets will appear on the ballot in Idaho this November
Idaho’s Nov. 5, 2024, general election ballot will feature nine presidential candidates and their running mates. They are: Claudia De La Cruz is the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s presidential nominee, Jill Stein is the Green Party’s presidential nominee, and Randall Terry is the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee, but all three will appear on Idaho’s…
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203 seats up for election in Pennsylvania House on Nov. 5
Elections for all 203 seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will take place on November 5, 2024. Pennsylvania is one of 44 states holding legislative elections in 2024. Heading into the 2024 elections, Democrats have a 102-101 majority. Democrats gained control of the state House in 2022. Republicans had controlled the chamber since 2011.…
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One seat could determine Democratic supermajority in Nevada
Elections for 10 of the 21 seats in the Nevada Senate will take place on November 5, 2024. The Nevada Senate is one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country. Nevada Current’s April Corbin Girnus wrote, “Democrats already have a supermajority in the Assembly. If Democrats…
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Voters in North and South Carolina disaster counties returning mail-in ballots at similar rates to other counties
On Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the southeast United States. On Oct. 9, 2024, Hurricane Milton made landfall in the region. The hurricanes caused damage and casualties in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated which counties in these states were eligible to apply…