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A look at how key primaries in Virginia played out

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Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey: New Jersey roundup

New Jersey is holding elections, including for state legislative offices, on Nov. 7, 2023. A number of candidates running in these elections completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

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Election legislation roundup: Florida State Legislature

As of June 18, members of the Florida State Legislature, which includes the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida State Senate, have passed seven bills related to election administration since the beginning of the year. Of those seven bills, legislators passed four during the week of June 12-18. Republicans…

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Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey: New York roundup

New York is holding elections, including for judicial and municipal offices, on June 27, 2023, and Nov. 7, 2023, respectively. A number of candidates running in these elections completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for…

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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #66

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Three Republican party committees outraised their Democratic counterparts in May for the first time in the 2024 election cycle

As of May 31, 2023, the most recent party committee campaign finance filing deadline, the three committees associated with the Democratic Party have raised a cumulative $127 million for the 2024 election cycle, while the three committees associated with the Republican Party have raised $107 million.

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2023 percentage of survey responses from candidates seeking city offices is the highest to date

Over half of the Candidate Connection surveys received this year have come from candidates seeking city offices as of June 2023. Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection seeks to provide voters with a better understanding of who candidates are and how they may govern. Survey responses tend to move in a cyclical manner;…

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Nine candidates running in Louisiana’s open-seat, all-party gubernatorial primary on Oct. 14

Nine candidates are running in the all-party primary in the open-seat election for governor of Louisiana on Oct. 14. Gov. John Bel Edwards (D)—who was first elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019—is term-limited. Jeff Landry (R), Hunter Lundy (I), John Schroder (R), and Shawn Wilson (D) have the most…

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Louisiana Republicans continue to see more term-limited legislators than Democrats

For the third consecutive election cycle, Republican state legislators in Louisiana have more term-limited members than Democrats. In 2023, Republicans have 16 term-limited lawmakers, whereas Democrats have six. Louisiana is the only state holding elections for a term-limited legislature in 2023. Out of the 144 seats up for election in…

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Single-party control of state executive offices at highest point in more than a decade

Forty-four states have single-party control of state executive offices as of June 2023, which is up from 30 in 2010. When a single party controls the offices of governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, it is known as a state government triplex. If a state does not have all…

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Michigan continues to lead in number of mayoral recalls

For the second consecutive year, Michigan has experienced the largest number of mayoral recalls in the country as of the mid-point of the year. Ballotpedia has tracked 29 recall efforts against 28 mayors in the first half of 2023, with 15 of those recalls targeting mayors in Michigan. Disputes related…

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Texas school board races still more competitive during odd-year elections but % of incumbents who lost re-election may buck trend

Texas school board elections tend to see more candidates file per seat in odd-numbered years than in even-numbered years. Between 2018 and 2023, odd-numbered election years have averaged 2.08 candidates per seat, while even-numbered election years have averaged 1.78 candidates per seat. The highest average number of candidates per seat…

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Incumbent Andy Beshear (D) and Daniel Cameron (R) are running in the Kentucky gubernatorial election on Nov. 7

Incumbent Andy Beshear (D) and Daniel Cameron (R) are running in the Nov. 7, 2023, Kentucky gubernatorial election. The primary was May 16, 2023. The filing deadline was Jan. 6, 2023.

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More U.S. House races now featuring major-party competition

Over the past decade, the percentage of U.S. House of Representatives elections with only a Democrat or a Republican on the ballot has dropped in a majority of the election cycles and below the past century’s average. Here is the recent breakdown:

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Six legislatively-referred ballot measures received unanimous support from both parties, more than previous years

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All candidates for Virginia House of Delegates District 15 complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

All three candidates running in the June 20 Democratic primary election for Virginia House of Delegates District 15 — Laura Jane Cohen (D), Eric Schmidt (D), and Henri’ Thompson (D) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to…

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Trump maintains lead in Republican presidential primary polling and Predict market

As of June 19, 2023, former President Donald Trump (R) holds a lead in both RealClearPolitics’ (RCP) Republican presidential primary polling average and PredictIt’s Republican presidential primary market.

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North Carolina becomes latest state to challenge ESG

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

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Texas has enacted the most election-related legislation so far this year

As of June 15, legislators across the country have enacted 208 election-related bills this year, 42 more than the 166 bills states had enacted at this point in 2022.

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Five U.S. Senators have announced they are not running for re-election in 2024

Fifteen members of Congress—five members of the U.S. Senate and ten members of the U.S. House—have announced they would not seek re-election in 2024.

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It’s (Primary) Election Day in Virginia!

Welcome to the Tuesday, June 20, Brew.

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Language for veto referendum challenging the LEARNS Act is the longest ballot title in Arkansas history

Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students (CAPES) began filing ballot language for a proposed veto referendum with the Arkansas attorney general in May after the Arkansas State Legislature adjourned its 2023 legislative session. After two previous attempts were rejected, Attorney General Tim Griffin certified the ballot language submitted by…

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Biden administration seeks to dismiss lawsuit challenging ESG retirement plan rule

The Biden administration on June 5 moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by states challenging a Department of Labor rule on the use of ESG factors in investment-related decisions for retirement funds governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The states filed suit earlier…

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Unemployment insurance indexing bill fails in Arizona

The Arizona House of Representatives on June 12 voted against a bill 29-31 that would have indexed the length of unemployment insurance benefits to the state’s unemployment rate. During times when the unemployment rate was at or below 5%, unemployed workers would have been able to collect a maximum of…

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Coloradans have voted on 36 TABOR-related ballot measures since 1993, rejecting 69% of them

Coloradans have decided on 36 statewide ballot measures that were designed to increase revenue for the state, which required voter approval under TABOR. Of the 36 measures, 11 (30.56%) were approved and 25 (69.44%) were defeated.

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