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The Congress conducts two main activities so as to evaluate the Charter's implementation: local and regional election monitoring and observation. The Congress regularly observes local and/or regional elections in member and applicant countries, which allows the Council to monitor the state of local and regional democracy in the countries concerned.
Cities in the top 100 with mayoral elections. Click on the city names to go to that city's election page. Blue pins denote Partisan or Nonpartisan Democratic incumbents, red pins Partisan or Nonpartisan Republican, and white pins independents. Smaller cities will be included elsewhere in the page.
Ranked-choice voting or RCV is a system that only some states and counties use, but there's a growing push to implement it in wider U.S. elections.
Some examples of local elected positions include sheriffs at the county level and mayors and school board members at the city level. Like state elections, an election for a specific local office may be held at the same time as either the presidential, midterm, or off-year elections.
This category is for local and municipal elections in the United States (not national or state elections). Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Local governments across the US consist of hundreds of thousands of elected officials. Local elections are often marked by "abysmally low" voter turnout, as these elections are de-synchronized from state and federal elections. A 2009 study found that less than 40% of registered voters participate in local elections for mayor and city council. [32]
In November 2010, North Carolina had three RCV elections for local-level superior court judges, each with three candidates, and a statewide IRV election for a North Carolina Court of Appeals seat (with 13 candidates). The Court of Appeals race is believed to be the first time RCV has been used in any statewide general election in the United States.