Tag: 2024 elections coverage
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Four candidates running for North Carolina Governor in November general election
Josh Stein (D), Mark K. Robinson (R), Wayne Turner (G), and Mike Ross (L) are running in the general election for Governor of North Carolina on November 5, 2024. Incumbent Governor Roy Cooper (D) is term-limited. Politico called the race the most important and likely the most expensive governor’s race of 2024. The election will help determine North Carolina’s trifecta status. Heading into the 2024 election, Republicans have majorities…
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Incumbent Matt Gaetz (R) and Aaron Dimmock (R) are running in the Republican primary for Florida’s 1st Congressional District
Incumbent Matt Gaetz (R) and Aaron Dimmock (R) are running in the Republican primary for Florida’s 1st Congressional District on August 20, 2024. Former president Donald Trump (R) endorsed Gaetz in the primary, and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R) endorsed Dimmock. Gaetz, who was first elected to Congress in 2016, received national…
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Andrea Salinas (D) and Mike Erickson (R) are running in the a rematch in OR-06 general election
Incumbent Andrea Salinas (D) and Mike Erickson (R) are running in the general election for Oregon’s 6th Congressional District on November 5, 2024. The race is a rematch from 2022, when Salinas defeated Erickson 50.1% to 47.7%. This is the second general election in the district’s history. It was first created as a result of…
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65% of July’s elections were uncontested
Throughout July, Ballotpedia covered 525 elections in 11 states, 65% of which were uncontested. That’s down from June, when 76% of the 5,072 covered were uncontested. Ballotpedia defines an uncontested election as one where the number of candidates running is less than or equal to the number of seats up for election. This analysis does…
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Five candidates are running for Delaware’s At-Large Congressional District—the most since 2016
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Delaware was July 9, 2024. Five candidates are running for Delaware’s At-Large Congressional District, including three Democrats and two Republicans. Two candidates ran in 2022, three candidates ran in 2020, and three ran in 2018. Here are some other highlights from this year’s filings: Delaware…
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Three candidates are running in the top-two primary for Washington Attorney General on August 6, 2024
Nick Brown (D), Manka Dhingra (D), and Pete Serrano (R) are running in the top-two primary election for Attorney General of Washington on August 6, 2024. Incumbent Bob Ferguson (D) is running for Governor of Washington, leaving the office open for the first time since 2012. According to the Washington State Standard, Ferguson “prides himself on…
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Mo Green (D) and Michele Morrow (R) are running in the general election for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction
Mo Green (D) and Michele Morrow (R) are running in the general election for North Carolina superintendent of public instruction on November 5, 2024. Morrow defeated incumbent Catherine Truitt (R) in the Republican primary. In June 2024, Education Week’s Libbie Stanford described voters’ choice between Green and Morrow as one between “a person with experience teaching in and leading K-12 schools or an…
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Incumbent Ken Calvert and Will Rollins are running in the general election for California’s 41st Congressional District
Incumbent Ken Calvert (R) and Will Rollins (D) are running in the general election for California’s 41st Congressional District on November 5, 2024. This is a rematch of the 2022 election. Calvert was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992, and he has represented various districts due to redistricting. He was first elected to…
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Four U.S. House primaries are contested in New Hampshire this year—the most in the last 10 years
This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in New Hampshire was June 14, 2024. Twenty-four candidates are running for New Hampshire’s two U.S. House districts, including four Democrats and 20 Republicans. That’s an average of 12 candidates per district. There was an average of 9.5 candidates per district in 2022, 6.0 candidates per…
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Fewer incumbents facing challengers in Kansas state legislative primaries
Kansas has 41 contested state legislative primaries on August 6, 2024. That is the fewest contested primaries in years that all 165 seats of the state legislature have been up for election since Ballotpedia started tracking in 2012. There are 11 contested Democratic primaries and 30 contested Republican primaries. This was a record low for…