Category: Local
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Seven candidates are running in the nonpartisan general elections for the Conway School Board in Arkansas
Seven candidates are running in the nonpartisan general elections for Conway School Board in Arkansas on May 13. Three of the board’s seven seats are up for election. The Conway School District consists of seven members serving five-year terms. During the 2023 school year, 10,251 students attended one of the district’s 16 schools. This is…
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West Virginia enacts bill aligning municipal election dates
On April 24, 2025, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) signed SB 50, requiring all local municipal elections to be held concurrently with a regularly scheduled statewide primary or general election by 2032. The Republican-sponsored bill passed the West Virginia Legislature with bipartisan support, including a unanimous vote in the West Virginia Senate. Supporters of…
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Gina Ortiz Jones and Rolando Pablos advance to June 7, 2025, mayoral runoff election in San Antonio
On May 3, Gina Ortiz Jones and Rolando Pablos advanced to the June 7, 2025, mayoral runoff election in San Antonio, Texas. Twenty-seven candidates ran in the nonpartisan general election on May 3. Beto Altamirano, John Courage, Adriana Garcia, Melissa Cabello Havrda, Ortiz Jones, Pablos, Manny Pelaez, and Clayton Perry were notable candidates based on…
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Incumbent Edward Gainey (D) and Corey O’Connor (D) are running in the Democratic primary for mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 2025
Incumbent Edward Gainey (D) and Corey O’Connor (D) are running in the Democratic primary for mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 20, 2025. A Democrat has held the mayor’s office since 1934. PennLive‘s J.D. Prose wrote, “With Pittsburgh remaining a solidly blue enclave in purple Allegheny County, the party’s primary race winner will be considered…
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Wisconsin school board president faces April 22 recall election
A recall election against Angela Hansen-Winker, president of the Wrightstown Community School District Board of Education in Wisconsin, is being held on April 22, 2025. Nicole Verbeten is running against Hansen-Winker in the election. Whoever receives the most votes will finish Hansen-Winker’s term, which is due to expire in 2026. The group Residents 4 Wrightstown…
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Incumbent Lawrence Krasner (D) and Patrick F. Dugan (D) are running in the May 20 Democratic primary for district attorney of Philadelphia
Incumbent Lawrence Krasner (D) and Patrick F. Dugan (D) are running in the Democratic primary for district attorney of Philadelphia on May 20, 2025. WHYY Radio’s Carmen Russell-Sluchansky wrote, “The contest pits two competing philosophies against each other: Krasner’s commitment to continuing to overhaul a historically punitive system and Dugan’s pledge to restore a sense…
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Incumbent Brandi Lautigar and Pollyann Sorcan running in the nonpartisan special election for Minnesota’s Rock Ridge Public School Board
Incumbent Brandi Lautigar and Pollyann Sorcan are running in the nonpartisan special election for an at-large seat on the Rock Ridge Public School Board on April 8, 2025. Sorcan is running for the seat that she previously held before the board voted to expel her and appoint Lautigar to her seat. Sorcan was re-elected in…
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Jonathan Curtis and Melinda Lemke won two Wrightstown School Board seats in Wisconsin
Jonathan Curtis and Melinda Lemke defeated Amber Cox and Jeff Nelson for two seats on the seven-member Wrightstown Community School District Board of Education in Wisconsin on April 1, 2025. Lemke received 28.7% of the vote, Curtis received 25.4%, Cox received 23.3%, and Nelson received 22.7%. Curtis and Lemke, an incumbent, ran a joint campaign…
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Five candidates are running in the primary for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska
Five candidates are running in the nonpartisan primary for mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, on April 1, 2025. Three lead in polling and fundraising: Mayor Jean Stothert, John Ewing Jr., and Mike McDonnell. The filing deadline for this election was Feb. 28, 2025. Stothert was first elected in 2013. She is campaigning on her record: “My vision for the future is obviously to make sure that…
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Ten candidates are running for mayor of Oakland on April 15
Ten candidates are running in the April 15 nonpartisan, special general election for mayor of Oakland. Incumbent Kevin Jenkins is not running. The Oakland City Council selected Jenkins to serve as interim mayor after voters recalled former mayor Sheng Thao 60.6%-39.4% on Nov. 5, 2024. Click here to learn more about the recall. This was…