On February 1, 2019, the filing deadline passed to run in the Anchorage Assembly elections in Alaska. Five of the assembly’s 11 total seats are on the ballot in the nonpartisan general election on April 2. Two incumbents filed and are unopposed in their re-election bids: Forrest Dunbar representing District 5 (Seat H) and John…
School districts in Oklahoma are holding primaries on February 12 for school board elections that attracted more than two candidates per seat. Of the 26 school districts Ballotpedia covers in the state, three had enough candidates file to hold primaries in 2019. The top two vote recipients in those primaries will advance to the general…
Five candidates filed to run in the May 7 special election for the Area 5 seat on the Moreno Valley Unified School District Board of Education. The filing deadline was February 8. The seat was originally vacated in August 2018 when Evan Morgan resigned his position following criminal charges that Morgan said he feared would…
On February 1, 2019, the filing deadline passed to run in nonpartisan elections for two seats on the Anchorage School District Board of Education in Alaska. The general election is on April 2. Both seats have contested elections with two candidates running for Seat A and incumbent Starr Marsett facing two challengers to retain…
Chicago residents can vote early right within their wards as of Monday, Feb. 11. Locations are open for early voting seven days a week through Feb. 25, the day before the election. Click the link below to see addresses and hours for locations in all 50 wards. One early voting location—the Loop Super Site at…
On Tuesday, the Duval County Democratic Party announced it had passed a resolution opposing the re-election of Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry (R), although there are no Democratic candidates running. Curry faces Councilwoman Anna Brosche (R), former Atlantic Beach City Councilman Jimmy Hill (R), and Omega Allen (I) in the March 19 general election. If no…
In 2019, Ballotpedia is covering school board elections for 496 seats across 176 school districts. These districts span 23 states, and collectively, they served 6,425,522 students during the 2015-2016 school year—approximately 12.8 percent of all public school students in the nation. In addition to the 200 largest school districts as measured by student enrollment, Ballotpedia…
Candidates seeking to run in the special election for an open seat on the Moreno Valley Unified School District in California must file by February 8. The election to fill the vacant Area 5 seat on the board of education will be held on May 7. The seat was originally vacated in August 2018.…
Seven seats on the Kansas City school board in Missouri are up for nonpartisan general election on April 2, 2019. The filing deadline for this election was January 15, and the community will only see contested races in Sub-district 1 and Sub-district 5 where two candidates filed to run per seat. In Sub-district 4,…
The filing deadline for the Atlanta District 3 city council special election passed on January 25, 2019. The general election is on March 19, and a runoff election will be held on April 16 if no candidate receives a majority of the vote The election was called after Ivory Lee Young Jr. died in…