Category: Local

Seattle, Washington, is holding elections for seven of the nine seats on its city council on November 5, 2019. Two previously-approved ballot measures will play out with this November’s elections. Let’s explore how they played out. The two ballot measures: the City of Seattle Restrictions on Campaign Finance and Elections Initiative (2015) and the Seattle…

On February 19, Wisconsin is holding primaries for local offices where more than two candidates filed to run per seat. Wisconsin holds annual elections each spring. Primary winners will advance to the state’s general election on April 2. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Central. Ballotpedia is covering primaries in Madison…

A recall election seeking to remove two of the seven members of the Flambeau School District Board of Education in Wisconsin will be held on February 19, 2019. The process to recall board President Sam Stewart and board clerk Danielle Zimmer started in December 2018. The two members were targeted for recall due to allegedly…

Each year, local elections in Texas are split between May and November, depending on the area. The filing deadline to run for office in the May elections will pass on February 15. Ballotpedia is covering elections in three counties (Collin, El Paso, Tarrant), seven cities (Arlington, Dallas, Fort Worth, Garland, Irving, Plano, San Antonio), and…

The filing deadline for Ohio’s Columbus City Schools Board of Education was February 6, 2019. Five at-large seats are up for nonpartisan general election on November 5—four for a full term and one for an unexpired term. A total of six candidates filed, the lowest since 2011. Incumbent James C. Ragland, who was appointed to…

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…

The filing deadline for municipal elections in Indiana was February 8, 2019. The general election is on November 5, and partisan primaries are scheduled for May 7. Ballotpedia is covering elections in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. There are no statewide elections in Indiana in 2019. Indianapolis is holding elections for mayor and all 25 seats…

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…