Elections

In what turned out to be an expensive D.C. State Board of Education race, educators and those seeking to shake up the system won by double-digit percentages.

Past 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, a strange moment arrived for obsessive D.C. election-watchers: The D.C. Board of Elections results page suddenly stopped its live results tally, with only 142 of 143 precincts reporting. One…

Yesterday’s election saw some local victories for the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA-endorsed candidates in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Julia Salazar, made history as two of the youngest people to be elected to Congress…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) easily won reelection yesterday but ended up diminished citywide. Facing token opposition, Bowser cruised to victory, capturing 76 percent of the votes for mayor. But she fell behind other winners in citywide…

Mayor Muriel Bower became D.C.’s first reelected mayor since 2002 and the first woman to ever earn a second term as the city executive. And yet she still lost on Election Day.

D.C. voters had a philosophical question about public education to answer at the polls Tuesday: Did they want candidates who would more likely be fervent advocates of the traditional public school system, or those who would bolster public…

It’s been a good night for incumbents in the D.C. local races. As widely predicted, incumbent Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser coasted to victory, winning about 76 percent of the vote. Bowser is the first D.C. mayor to win a second term since…

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) became the city’s first chief executive to win reelection in 16 years, but her handpicked candidate failed to unseat one of her rivals in a bitterly contested D.C. Council race.

Tuesday’s general election in the District was a rainy affair with no surprises — except for a surge in voter turnout.

Meet Margaret Norwood. This 104-year-old woman voted in D.C.’s general election on November 6 at UDC Bertie Backus, according to a post from D.C. Mayor Bowser’s Instagram page. As Bowser’s post points out, when Norwood was born, women did…

WASHINGTON — For Allie Bobak, her job Tuesday at a polling site at Barnard Elementary School in Northwest was to only serve as a nonpartisan observer with the organization Observe DC. But that job quickly took on the added role of saving a…

Voters in two D.C. precincts Tuesday morning had more than rainy weather to contend with as they tried to cast their ballots. At the polling place in Eastern Market, where people in both precinct 88 and 89 are assigned to vote, lines…

It's a rainy election day, but City Paper reporters are spending it talking to voters and candidates at polling places, and in the evening, at watch parties across the District. We'll add dispatches to this post throughout the day, so keep…

Election Day is just about here and we have the rundown on everything you need to know, including where to vote, where to watch results, and what’s going on in the local races.

D.C. voters heading into the polling place on Tuesday will be asked to vote for two candidates for the D.C. Council’s At-Large seats. There are six candidates running: a Democrat, a Republican, a member of the Statehood Green Party and…

Andre “Smokey” Lee was a solid waste inspector for the Department of Public Works when he first met native Washingtonian Dionne Reeder. He recalls her as a community-minded straight shooter who could connect with everyday people with ease.

In a year when D.C. schools have been marred by scandals, usually sleepy State Board of Education races have pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations. Four seats — drawing 10 contenders — are on the ballot Tuesday.…

Josh Lopez can't help himself. The former appointee of Mayor Muriel Bowser and current unbridled antagonizer has injected himself into the at-large Council race once again. In text messages between Lopez and Councilmember Trayon White, …

American socialism is having a moment. Leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, the ideology has been embraced by some as the future of progressive politics and shunned by others as a dangerous notion that could destroy the American way…