Category: Local

The city of Los Angeles, California, is holding a nonpartisan special general election on August 13 for one of the 15 seats on the city council. John Lee and Loraine Lundquist are facing off after advancing from a pool of 15 candidates in the special primary on June 4.   The vacancy on the city…

The Tucson City Council voted Tuesday to put an initiative on the November 2019 ballot that would enact sanctuary city policies in the city’s code.   If the mayor and city council had approved the measure, it would have become law without an election.   If the initiative is approved, Tucson would become the first…

The city of Fresno, California, is holding a nonpartisan special election for the District 2 seat on the city council Tuesday. A runoff election is scheduled for November 5 if no candidate wins at least 50 percent of the votes cast in the election. The candidate filing deadline was May 17. Six candidates filed in…

Public defender Tiffany Caban conceded the Democratic primary for Queens, New York, district attorney to Queens Borough President Melinda Katz (D) Tuesday, ending a six-week-long dispute over the election’s outcome.   The primary to succeed Richard Brown, who died in May 2019 after 28 years in office, drew national attention when presidential candidates Bernie Sanders…

Seattle held a primary election for the seven district seats on its nine-member city council Tuesday. Seattle uses a vote-by-mail process; due to the delay between ballots being mailed by voters and received by election officials, races have not yet been called. King County Elections is scheduled to count ballots each day until the primary…

A parks and recreation property tax measure was on the ballot for voters in King County, Washington, and a library property tax measure was on the ballot for voters in Seattle. The measures were approved by 67% and 73% of voters, respectively, according to the unofficial election night report. After the election night report, 40%…

On Thursday, the city of Nashville held nonpartisan general elections for all 41 metro council seats, including vice-mayor. The filing deadline for this election was May 16, and the runoff election is on September 12.   Thirty-five city council members are elected by district, and five members are elected at large. A candidate must receive…

Three of the seven at-large seats on the Compton Unified School District Board of Trustees in California are up for nonpartisan general election on November 5. The filing deadline is August 9. The seats held by board President Micah Ali, Clerk Charles Davis, and member Sandra Moss are on the ballot. Ali was first elected…

At-Large Nashville Metro Councilmember John Cooper and incumbent Mayor David Briley advanced to a September 12 runoff election for mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday. Cooper received 35 percent of the vote and Briley received 26 percent with 61 percent of precincts reporting, in addition to early and absentee votes tallied.   Former professor Carol…

On July 29, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz was announced as the winner of the Democratic primary for the Queens County District Attorney position in New York following a manual recount. The primary took place on June 25, 2019. Attorney Daniel Kogan ran unopposed in the Republican primary. The general election for the open seat…