Category: 2025 elections
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A look at elections for downballot state offices in 2025
In the 2025 elections, while much attention is focused on the top statewide offices, such as governor or attorney general, these are not the only statewide offices up for election in 2025. Other states will be holding elections for various statewide offices, including those for state supreme court and public service commission. Here is a…
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Four seats on the Albuquerque Public Schools board are up for election
Four seats on the Albuquerque Public Schools school board in New Mexico are up for election on November 4, 2025. Albuquerque Journal’s Noah Alcala Bach wrote, “The balance of power between the two primary factions that make up the Albuquerque Public Schools board is on the ballot this November.” Eight candidates are running in the…
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Six candidates are running for three seats on the South-Western City Schools Board of Education on Nov. 4, 2025
Six candidates are running in the nonpartisan general election for three at-large seats on the five-member South-Western City Schools Board of Education on Nov. 4, 2025. The three candidates who receive the most votes will serve four-year terms on the board. Incumbents Camille Peterson and Chris Boso are running for re-election, while incumbent Kelli Martindale is not running for re-election. The six candidates are running…
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Maine ballot initiative campaigns raise $3.3 million ahead of Nov. 2025 election
The quarterly deadline for campaign finance reports in Maine was Oct. 6, meaning the latest filings for ballot measure committees cover contributions and expenditures through Sept. 30. Through Sept. 30, campaigns for and against the two ballot initiatives on Maine’s Nov. 4, 2025, ballot have raised a combined $3.3 million. The two ballot measures are…
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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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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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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…
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A look at state executive election competitiveness in 2025
Ballotpedia’s 2025 study of competitiveness in state executive official elections found that 50% of incumbents (4 incumbents across 8 seats) did not seek re-election, leaving those seats open. An average of 41.7% of state executive seats were open in odd-year elections from 2011-2023. An average of 58.3% state executive incumbents sought re-election in odd years…