Tag: 2023 elections

  • Hal Rafter (D) and James Guzofski (R) are running in the Sept. 19 special election for New Hampshire House District Rockingham 1

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    Hal Rafter (D) and James Guzofski (R) are running in the special general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives District Rockingham 1 on Sept. 19, 2023. The previous incumbent, Benjamin T. Bartlett IV (R), resigned on April 26, 2023, due to health concerns. Rafter is a partner for Waterline, an organization that provides river…

  • Voters have decided on 960 parcel tax measures in California since 2008, with the next one scheduled for Aug. 29 in Santa Lucia Community Services District

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    Californians have decided on 960 local parcel tax ballot measures from 2008 to Aug. 2023. Voters in Santa Lucia Community Services District, a special district in Monterey County, will decide the next parcel tax measure on Aug. 29, 2023. Since 2008, 577 (60.10%) parcel tax ballot measures were approved and 383 (39.90%) were defeated. From…

  • Democratic and Republican incumbents tied in state legislative primary loses

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    As of Aug. 14, 12 state legislative incumbents—six Democrats and six Republicans—have lost to primary challengers. Across the three states that have held primaries, 3.5% of incumbents running for re-election have lost, slightly fewer than in 2021 (3.9%). These totals include data from both legislative chambers in Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia. Mississippi held its primary…

  • Carolyn Carluccio and Daniel McCaffery are running in the Nov. 7 partisan election for one seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

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    Carolyn Carluccio (R) and Daniel McCaffery (D) are running in the partisan election for one seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Nov. 7, 2023. The primary was May 16, 2023. The winner of the general election will succeed Justice Max Baer (D), who died on September 30, 2022. As a result of Baer’s death,…

  • Results from Mississippi’s battleground House primaries

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    Mississippi voters decided 44 contested state House primaries on Aug. 8, a decade-low for the chamber, down one from the previous low in 2019. Ballotpedia identified six battleground primaries in the chamber: one between Democrats and five between Republicans. In Mississippi, a candidate wins a primary outright if they receive a majority vote. Otherwise, the…

  • Brown defeats Newman in the Republican primary for the Northern District seat on the Mississippi Public Service Commission

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    Chris Brown defeated Tanner Newman in the August 8, 2023, Republican primary for the Mississippi Public Service Commission Northern District.  No Democrat is running in the district, so Brown is guaranteed to win the general election on Nov. 7. Incumbent Brandon Presley (D) is running for governor of Mississippi. According to DeSoto County News‘ Bob…

  • Ohio voters defeat Issue 1 in special election

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    Ohio voters defeated Issue 1, which would have made changes to the laws governing citizen-initiated constitutional amendments, including increasing the vote requirement to 60% for constitutional amendments, on Aug. 8, 2023. With 95% reporting, election results show 57% of voters opposed and 43% of voters in favor. The One Person One Vote campaign, which led…

  • 146 candidates filed for federal and statewide offices last week

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    One hundred forty-six (146) people declared candidacies for federal or statewide offices in the past week, 24 fewer than last week. All of these candidates declared before their state’s official filing deadline. Seventy (70) of those candidates were Democratic, while 69 were Republican. Seven are minor-party candidates. One hundred twenty-two (122) candidates are running for…

  • Wu, Whipple advance from primary for mayor of Wichita, Kansas

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    Lily Wu finished first, and incumbent Brandon Whipple finished second in the top two nonpartisan primary election for mayor of Wichita, Kansas, on Aug. 1. Wu and Whipple advanced to the Nov. 7 general election from a field of nine candidates. Though the race was officially nonpartisan, Wu—a former Republican—is a Libertarian. Whipple is a…

  • Update on this year’s and next year’s ballot measure certifications

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    As of July 25, 2023, 40 statewide measures have been certified for the ballot in eight states, 15 more measures more than the average number certified at this point in other even-numbered years from 2010 to 2020.  For 2024, 45 statewide measures have been certified in 21 states. That’s equal to the average number certified…