Jose Regalado and Ralph Rosado are running in a nonpartisan special election for District 4 of the Miami City Commission on June 3, 2025. Former incumbent Manolo Reyes died on April 11. The winner will complete the remainder of Reyes’ term, which will expire in 2027. Regalado was the assistant building director for the city…
On May 14, 2025, the Boston, Massachusetts city council voted 8-4 to approve a home rule petition to adopt ranked-choice voting (RCV) for city elections. The petition needs approval from Mayor Michelle Wu (D), who said she would sign the measure, before it goes to the state legislature for consideration. If passed by the legislature…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…