Elections

When Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Patrick Kennedy announced his intention to challenge Jack Evans for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat, people reached out to his campaign to ask how they could donate, says campaign treasurer Marina…

A Vince Gray-supported slate fell to Alexander and her allies.

D.C. Council member Jack Evans, who is the target of a federal investigation into whether he used his public position for private gain, issued his first response Wednesday to an attempt by some voters to recall him from the office he’s…

D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) faces the threat of a recall election as political fallout from an ongoing federal probe into his business dealings continues to grow.

Embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) is facing a federal investigation into allegations of influence peddling, a likely reprimand from his colleagues, and calls for him to step down from the Council’s powerful finance…

D.C. is debating when to hold its primary for the 2020 presidential contest. Right now, the District is slated to go in late June, last in the country.

The 2020 election cycle is right around the corner, and the Office of Campaign Finance doesn’t have the program up and running.

Traditionally, Iowa and New Hampshire lead off the presidential nominating contests. In 2004, however, the District of Columbia bucked that trend and went first. Why? To highlight our lack of full voting rights, self-determination,…

At it stands, Democratic voters in Washington, D.C., will be last in the nation to weigh in on who should challenge Donald Trump in 2020’s presidential contest. But some local politicos want to change that.

You can put your money on this: future elections in D.C. will look very different than the ones from the past. And it comes down to money.

In the last act of a busy local election year, District voters Tuesday in Ward 4 picked Frazier O’Leary to represent them on the D.C. State Board of Education.

D.C.’s 2018 local elections are finally finished. Frazier O’Leary, the union-backed (and George Pelecanos-endorsed) candidate, won a special election to represent Ward 4 on the Board of Education on Tuesday.

When Ward 4 resident Andrew Hunt received a campaign email from Rhonda Henderson last week, he wondered: How did the candidate for the Ward 4 seat on the D.C. State Board of Education get his email address?

There’s still one more election left in D.C. this year, and the results could turn on the enthusiastic endorsement of D.C. literary royalty George Pelecanos.

The Initiative 77 chess match continues. 

A push for a public vote to overturn the D.C. Council’s repeal of Initiative 77 hit a significant roadblock on Tuesday, as a D.C. bartender filed a lawsuit looking to delay, if not outright derail the proposed referendum.

How much was a single vote worth in this month’s D.C. State Board of Education elections? Maybe $3? $5? Even $8?

It wasn’t quite Bush v. Gore and the Case of the Hanging Chad, but as Tommy Curtis reminded Answer Man recently, the District once had its own drawn-out, contested election. It was not dissimilar to this month’s lengthy, laborious and…

D.C. restaurant groups Cava and &pizza offered their hourly workers paid time off this year to vote on Election Day. If a new bill passes, all workers in the District would have the same benefit.