May 4—The Anchorage mayoral runoff election is underway, and voters are choosing between incumbent Dave Bronson and former Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance to lead the city for the next three years. The rivals have a history: LaFrance chaired the Assembly during the first two years of Bronson’s term, leading a supermajority that often clashed with […]
Democrat Erin McClelland is the unofficial winner of her party’s nomination for state treasurer, besting State Rep. Ryan Bizzarro, who sought to be the first Erie County resident to win a statewide office in nearly 30 years. By 11:53 p.m. Tuesday, unofficial primary election results had McClelland with 524,503 votes to Bizzarro’s 439,261 votes statewide […]
Apr. 15—Chad Burroughs defeated incumbent Sheriff Matthew Melvin by a nine-vote margin in the Republican primary following a countywide recount Monday, positioning him against a write-in candidate in the November election. Burroughs won 3,276, or 50.07% of the vote, while Melvin received 3,267 votes, or 49.93%, board of elections deputy director Chris Creamer said. He […]
Months ahead of Port Huron’s election filing deadline, the races for city offices are already shaping out to be a contest — with one extra City Council seat potentially up for grabs and a challenge for Mayor Pauline Repp from a familiar face. Repp first announced her intent to seek re-election on Feb. 19, pulling […]
Apr. 5—Muskogee School Superintendent Jarod Mendenhall filed for the District 13 Oklahoma House seat on Friday. He is to face one-term incumbent Neil Hayes, a Checotah insurance agent, in the Republican primary on June 18. No Democrats or independents filed for that seat. Friday was the final day to file for federal state and county […]
Timnath voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have restricted annexation of land containing active mining permits, voted off an incumbent Timnath Town Council member and elected a new mayor and two new council members. All of Timnath’s council members are elected at large, so the top two vote-getters fill the two open […]
Mar. 26—Incumbent Indian Capital Technology Center board member Monte Madewell faces a reelection challenge from former ICTC Stilwell campus director David West. They answered the following questions about their candidacy. 1 Why are you running for the ICTC Board of Education? MADEWELL: “I am running for the ICTC Board of Education because I am deeply […]
Mar. 21—A Joplin City Council member, Mark Farnham, has filed as a candidate for Missouri House District 160. Farnham is midway through a four-year term to represent Zone 4 on the south side of the city. He will challenge Rep. Ben Baker of Neosho for the seat. Records of the Missouri secretary of state show […]
Incumbent Dennis McBride will face Andrew Meindl, who currently serves as an alderperson for District 1, in Wauwatosa’s mayoral election April 2. The next mayor will enter office as the city plans its 2045 Comprehensive Plan. They’ll tackle questions of how to fund aging infrastructure as the city approaches a fiscal cliff and faces financial […]
There will be a contested Republican primary in the District 28 state House seat in Dallas County. Former U.S. Rep. David Young, a Republican who represents District 28, announced on March 13 his plans to run again for the state legislative district seat. Iowa Secretary of State records showed that Young had filed the same […]
HOWARD – Voters in Howard will decide if incumbent Raymond Suennen or challenger Dixon Wolfe will become their next County Board member for the next two years in the election on April 2. Suennen and Wolfe are running for the seat in District 23 that serves eastern Howard. Suennen has been on the County Board […]
Township elections results in Washington County ranged from a nail-biter to a landslide on Tuesday night. In May Township, Town Board Supervisor Steve Magner held off a challenge from Mark Deissner and won by four votes. Magner received 240 votes; Deissner got 236 votes. Magner served on the township’s planning commission for 17 years before […]