Category: Local

  • Pamela Price first district attorney in Alameda County’s history to be recalled

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    Voters recalled Alameda County, California, District Attorney Pamela Price on Nov. 5 by a margin of 65.2%-34.2%. The office is nonpartisan, but Price is affiliated with the Democratic Party. This is the first time in the county’s history that voters recalled a district attorney. The county must certify election results no later than Dec. 5,…

  • Sheng Thao first mayor in Oakland’s history to be recalled

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    Oakland, California, voters recalled Mayor Sheng Thao by a margin of 61.5%-38.5% on Nov. 5. The office is nonpartisan, but Thao is affiliated with the Democratic Party. This is the first time in the city’s history that voters recalled a mayor. Official results will be certified on Dec. 5, at which time Thao must vacate…

  • Idaho school board recall election on November 5 ballot

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    A recall election against Kathy Egan, Zone 1 representative on the Marsh Valley Joint School District board of trustees in Idaho, is being held on November 5, 2024. The official reasons for recall listed on the ballot are “poor performance of the school district, declining enrollment, poor financial oversight.” Voters will be able to vote…

  • Maine school board recall scheduled for December 17

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    A recall election against Kirstin Shapiro, member of the Regional School Unit 21 Board of School Directors in Maine, has been scheduled for December 17, 2024.  The recall effort started in October 2024 during stalled contract negotiations between the school board and the Kennebunk Arundel Kennebunkport Educators’ Association. Teachers started the 2024-2025 school year without…

  • Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao faces a recall election on Nov. 5, 2024

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    An election to recall Mayor Sheng Thao is scheduled to take place on Nov. 5, 2024, in Oakland, California. Governing’s Joshua Spivak wrote this election, along with the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price also on Nov. 5, “were in part launched due to pushback against approaches to crime and the criminal justice…

  • Seven candidates are running for three seats in the Grant Public Schools District, Michigan

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    Elections for three Grant Public School District seats will be held on Nov. 5, 2024. Grant Public School District is a school district in Michigan (Muskegon and Newaygo counties). During the 2023 school year, 1,638 students attended one of the district’s five schools. The elections are happening after an effort to recall two board members…

  • Incumbent Tift County School Board Member Marilyn Burks and Ambrose King Jr. running in the special election for Tift County School Board District 1

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    Incumbent Tift County School Board Member Marilyn Burks (D) and Ambrose King Jr. (D) are running in the special election for Tift County School Board District 1 in Georgia on Nov. 5. This is a re-do election of the May 21 Democratic primary, in which Burks received 156 votes to King’s 154. Three seats on…

  • Katie Blaxberg and Stacy Geier are running in the nonpartisan election for District 5 on the Pinellas County School Board

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    One seat on the seven-member Pinellas County School Board in Florida is up for general election on November 5, 2024. Pinellas County Schools is located in Pinellas County, Florida. The district served 93,702 students during the 2022-2023 school year. The district Elections for two other seats on the board were decided in the August 20,…

  • Fourteen candidates are running for six seats on the Onaway Area Community School Board in Michigan

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    Fourteen candidates are running for six seats on the seven-member Onaway Area Community School Board in Michigan on Nov. 5, 2024. Eight candidates are running for three full six-year terms. Incumbents James Rieger and Lorrie Kowalski and challengers Kathleen Christian, James Gibson, John Kaszonyi, Tom Moran, Stacey Porter and Taed T.A. Price are on the…

  • Elections for San Francisco Unified School District school board to be especially crucial this year

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    Eleven candidates are running in a nonpartisan election for four seats on the seven-member San Francisco Unified School District school board (SFUSD) in California on Nov. 5. Incumbent Matt Alexander, Parag Gupta, Jaime Huling, John Jersin, and Supryia Marie Ray lead in media attention and endorsements. Board members serve four-year terms. Alexander is the only…