The nonpartisan general for DeForest Area School District Board of Education in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Candidates are competing for three of nine seats. The candidates are:
Incumbents Gail Lovick and Megan Taylor – Village of Windsor (two seats)
Incumbent Linda Leonhart – Town of Burke
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
DeForest Area School District served 3,762 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Candidates are competing for two of seven seats. The candidates are:
Blair Feltham and Badri Lankella – Seat 6
Incumbent Nicki Vander Meulen – Seat 7
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
Madison Metropolitan School District served 26,968 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for McFarland School District School Board in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Incumbent Craig Howery is running for re-election to one of five at-large board seats.
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
McFarland School District served 4,343 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for Middleton-Cross Plains School District Board of Education in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Candidates are competing for five of nine seats. The candidates are:
Incumbents Bob Green and Catherine Kells – Area II (two seats)
Incumbent Tabitha Hansen – Area III
Marni Ginsberge – Area IV (two seats)
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
Middleton-Cross Plains School District served 7,325 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for Milwaukee Board of School Directors in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Candidates are competing for five of nine seats. The candidates are:
Jeff Spence and Missy Zombor – At-large
Incumbent Marva Herndon and Shandowlyon Hendricks Reaves – District 1
Incumbent Erika Siemsen – District 2
Gabi Hart and Darryl Jackson – District 3
Incumbent Megan O’Halloran – District 8
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
Milwaukee Public Schools served 75,539 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for Sun Prairie Area Board of Education in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Candidates are competing for two of seven seats. The candidates for Sun Prairie Area Board of Education At-large (two seats) are:
Incumbent Carol Albright
Incumbent Tom Weber
Lisa Goldsberry
Katey Kamoku
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
Sun Prairie Area School District served 8,409 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for Verona Area School District Board of Education in Wisconsin is on April 4, 2023. The Feb. 21 primary was canceled due to a lack of opposition. The filing deadline to run was on Jan. 3.
Candidates are competing for three of seven seats. The candidates are:
Incumbents John Porco and Korbey White – At-large (two seats)
Juan Carlos Medina – Portion 3
Wisconsin voters can register by mailing a form to the local municipal clerk. An individual can also register in person at the municipal clerk’s office. If registering by mail, the application must be postmarked no later than 20 days before the election. In-person registration must be completed by 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. Same-day voter registration is also available, as long as the registrant provides proof of residency at the polls.
Verona Area School District served 5,543 students during the 2017-2018 school year.
The nonpartisan general for Denver, Colorado, is on April 4, 2023. The regular filing deadline was Jan. 19 and the write-in candidate filing deadline was March 20.
Candidates are competing for mayor, city council, city auditor, and city clerk and recorder. The following candidates are running for mayor of Denver as of March 19:
Renate Behrens
Kelly Brough
Lisa Calderón
Al Gardner
Chris Hansen
Leslie Herod
Michael Johnston
Aurelio Martinez
Deborah Ortega
Terrance Roberts
Trinidad Rodriguez
Andy Rougeot
Ean Tafoya
Robert Treta
James Walsh
Thomas Wolf
Matt Brady (Write-in)
Paul Fiorino (Write-in)
Marcus Giavanni (Write-in)
Danny F. Lopez (Write-in)
Jesse Parris (Write-in)
Abass Yaya Bamba (Write-in)
While most mayoral elections in the 100 largest cities are nonpartisan, most officeholders are affiliated with a political party. Incumbent Michael Hancock is affiliated with the Democratic Party. He was first elected in 2011 and is term-limited. This is Denver’s fifth open mayoral election since 1959, the last time the city elected a Republican mayor.
If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top-two vote-getters will advance to a runoff on June 6, 2023.
Denver is the largest city in Colorado and the 19th-largest city in the U.S. by population.
The nonpartisan general for Colorado Springs, Colorado, is on April 4, 2023. The city is also holding a special election for the District 3 city council seat on the same date. The filing deadline was Jan. 23.
Candidates are competing for city council and mayor. Four of nine city council seats are up for election. The following candidates are running for mayor of Colorado Springs:
Sallie Clark
Andrew Dalby
Darryl Glenn
Longinos Gonzalez Jr.
Lawrence Martinez
Jim Miller
Christopher Mitchell
Yemi Mobolade
Kallan Rodebaugh
Tom Strand
Johnathan Tiegen
Wayne W. Williams
While most mayoral elections in the 100 largest cities are nonpartisan, most officeholders are affiliated with a political party. Incumbent John W. Suthers is affiliated with the Republican Party. He was first elected in 2015 and is term-limited. As of March 2023, 62 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 26 are affiliated with the Republican Party, three are independents, seven identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors’ affiliations are unknown.
If no mayoral candidate receives a majority of votes, the top-two vote-getters will advance to a runoff on May 16, 2023.
Colorado Springs is the second-largest city in Colorado and the 39th-largest city in the U.S. by population.
The city of St. Louis, Missouri, held nonpartisan primaries for the Board of Aldermen on March 7, 2023. All 14 seats on the board and the seat of the president of the board were up for election. The top two candidates in each primary advanced to an April 4 general election.
The 2023 primary was the first to take place under a new ward system that reduced the number of seats on the board from 28 to 14. The reduction in board size was part of Proposition R, a charter amendment passed by voters in 2012 that took effect on Jan. 1, 2022. In accordance with Proposition R, the board passed new ward maps in 2021.
Eighteen incumbents, including the board president, filed to run for re-election in the downsized board. Fourteen advanced to the general election. Four were defeated in the primary and did not advance to the general election.
Ten incumbents did not seek re-election in 2023.
As a result of the reduction in the size of the board, four wards—the 4th, 9th, 13th, and 14th—had multiple incumbents running against each other in the primary.
Two wards—Ward 6 and Ward 7—were open, meaning no incumbents filed to run in those primaries.
Two primaries were uncontested. Shane Cohn (the incumbent in Ward 25) ran for re-election unopposed in Ward 3. President of the Board Megan Ellyia Green also ran unopposed for re-election.
The closest primary took place in the 9th Ward. Two incumbents—Tina Pihl (Ward 17) and Michael Gras (Ward 28)—were tied in second place with 868 votes each on Election Day. Pihl received eight additional votes after provisional ballots were counted, and advanced to the general election. Michael Browning, a Washington University School of Medicine staffer, finished in first place and also advanced.
Another initiative affecting the 2023 primary, Proposition D, was approved by voters in 2020. The measure made elections open and nonpartisan for the offices of mayor, comptroller, president of the Board of Aldermen, and the Board of Aldermen. The measure also changed the primary election system from plurality voting to approval voting, a voting system in which voters may vote for any number of candidates they choose. In St. Louis, the top two candidates in the primary advance to the general election.
Candidates elected in odd-numbered wards in 2023 will serve an initial two-year term and be eligible to run for four-year terms after that. Candidates elected in even-numbered wards will serve four-year terms. The president of the Board of Aldermen, a separate position elected at large, will also serve a four-year term.
The Board of Aldermen is St. Louis’ equivalent of a city council. It’s the city’s primary legislative body, responsible for adopting the city budget, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances. The President of the Board is responsible for presiding over board meetings.
The filing deadline for this election was January 6, 2023. The general election is scheduled for April 4, 2023.
