Elections

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has won the Democratic primary, putting her on track for a third term to lead the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, overcoming a progressive rival and virtually guaranteeing that she will win a third consecutive term to lead a city confronting inequality,…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser emerged as the apparent winner of the city’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, holding off three challengers in a bruising campaign and coming one step closer to winning a third consecutive term in office — a feat…

D.C. voters on Tuesday picked city council candidates who rejected calls for more police officers and strict mayoral control of public schools, advancing the council’s years-long move to the left while also reelecting moderate incumbents. …

Muriel E. Bowser (D), the pragmatic politician who has led the District for eight years, won the Democratic mayoral nomination Tuesday, according to projections from the Associated Press, beating out two left-leaning members of the council…

Siomara Martinez voted Tuesday at the same Columbia Heights building where she attended high school. But when the D.C. resident thought about the past, it was not with nostalgia.

Candidates for elected office and their volunteers fanned out across D.C. on Tuesday, making their final pitches to a seemingly small number of voters casting their ballots at 90 vote centers citywide for the June 21 primary.

After months of candidates sniping at each other and D.C. mailboxes being stuffed with an inordinate amount of political mailers, Primary Day is finally upon us.

District voters headed to the polls Tuesday for the city’s primary election, with the opportunity to select Democratic nominees across several races including mayor, attorney general and several seats on the D.C. Council.

On Tuesday, voters will head to the polls to select Democratic nominees in several D.C. races, including mayor, and pick nominees in some of Virginia’s most-watched GOP congressional races.

Democratic voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select the party’s nominees for mayor, for chairman and members of the D.C. Council, attorney general and a nonvoting delegate to Congress. Given the overwhelming advantage the party has in…

One of the women who filed a class-action lawsuit against the department is speaking up about Czapary’s candidacy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mayor Muriel Bowser cruised to reelection in the nation’s capital four years ago without serious opposition, and as the city enjoyed prosperous times, the main criticism of her policies was that Washington was growing too…

Zachary Parker and Faith Gibson Hubbard have contributions from DFER-aligned folks. But it’s more complicated than that.

For eight years, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has steered the nation’s capital through booming economic growth, fast-moving gentrification, a viral pandemic, a revolt for racial justice outside a White House hostile to the District’s…

The District may not use schools as early voting sites in the November general election following safety concerns from parents over using them this month for early voting.

D.C. Council members Robert C. White Jr. and Trayon White Sr. — Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s top challengers in the Democratic mayoral primary — were elected in 2016, giving them six years on the city’s powerful legislative body to create laws…

How much has the face of Washington, D.C., changed since the swearing-in of a home-rule government in 1975?

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser walked into D.C.'s most popular polling place on Thursday wearing a bright green “Reelect Muriel Bowser” sticker that she coordinated with her green necklace and matching purse.

Some progressives are trying consolidate behind Frumin, but the field seems unlikely to shrink any further.