Sixty-six elections nationwide were decided by 10 votes or fewer between Sept. 2023 and Sept. 2024. Thirty-five of those were decided by 5 votes or fewer. Democrats won 21 of these elections, Republicans won 30, and nonpartisan or minor party candidates won 15. This year, the race decided by 10 or fewer votes with the…
Incumbent Mick Bates, incumbent Cassie Kimbrell, and Keegan Barkley won election to the Woodland Park School District RE-2 school board in Teller County, Colorado, on Nov. 7, 2023. Three districts were up for election: District A, District C, and District D. The district had 1,804 students during the 2021-2022 school year. Incumbents Mick Bates, Dave…
Christine Henninger, Rose Ioppolo, Lauren Marchaza, Gil Martello, and Lyndsie Wall are running in the nonpartisan general election for Mentor Exempted Village School District school board in Ohio on Nov. 7, 2023. Two at-large seats are up for election in the district. Issues in the race include curriculum content, prohibiting certain books in school libraries,…
Nineteen candidates are running for seven districts and the chairmanship on the Prince William County Public Schools school board in Virginia on Nov. 7, 2023. The school district, located west of Alexandria, had approximately 90,070 students as of the 2020-21 school year. Board members are elected to four-year terms. One member—the board’s chairman—is elected at-large.…
Voters in Oregon retained state Rep. Paul Holvey (D) in a recall election on October 3, 2023. According to unofficial results, 90% of voters voted against recalling Holvey. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555 initiated the recall effort in May. The union criticized Holvey for multiple reasons in the recall petition, including…
The primary election in Charlotte, North Carolina, was on Sept. 12, 2023. Candidates competed to advance to the general election on Nov. 7, 2023. The filing deadline to run was on July 21, 2023. Candidates ran for Charlotte City Council and mayor of Charlotte. Incumbent Vi Alexander Lyles (D) defeated Lucille Puckett (D) in the…
The number of incumbents running in this year’s state executive elections—20—is the fewest in the past four cycles for these offices. These are the 36 executive positions that voters decide in three states—Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi—in the year prior to each presidential election. The number of incumbents running for re-election for these offices has declined…
Voters of at least three cities in Michigan—East Lansing, Kalamazoo, and Royal Oak—will decide on ranked-choice voting (RCV) initiatives on Nov. 7, 2023. The initiatives would provide that RCV would go into effect when state law is changed to allow local governments to enact RCV. As of 2023, state law prevents localities from using RCV…