General Election 2018

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

The Post could once make a local candidate's day. Not so much this year.

Once elections have ended, Yadira Molina finds the remaining campaign signs around the city irritating.

Call it the Nightmare on the Fifth Floor — the wing of the John A. Wilson Building that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s team occupies.

The District’s most hyperlocal political arena—Advisory Neighborhood Commissions—saw at least half a dozen longtime incumbents voted out on Tuesday, in some cases signaling shifts in neighborhood views on development, transit, zoning, and…

Ward 3 community activist and transgender rights advocate Monika Nemeth won election on Tuesday to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in district 3F06, becoming the first known transgender person to be elected to an ANC seat.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s effort to tip the scales in the District’s sole competitive council race was an unprecedented gamble in a city whose mayors have avoided campaigning against other incumbents — and it failed.

Residents of the nation’s capital get no vote in Congress, but the Democratic takeover of the House may come with a consolation prize: recreational marijuana shops.

Michael Bekesha ran his campaign against Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen as an “urban Republican”—a fiscal conservative who shares his city’s core values, and eschews any association with President Donald Trump.

Mayor Muriel Bowser convincingly won reelection Tuesday. But rather than basking in her big win, Bowser managed to step on her own parade. It was a misstep that will affect her already shaky relationship with the D.C. Council.

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.