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Tag Archives: Even-Year Elections

NPI makes the case for letting cities switch to even year elections on KUOW’s Soundside

Excerpt: NPI's proposal to allow cities and towns to move their regularly scheduled elections to even years if they want is drawing a lot of interest in the wake of the 2023 general election, which saw the worst turnout in state history.
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2023 is the new worst: Washington again sets a record for low turnout in a general election

Excerpt: November 28th, 2023 was the deadline for counties to certify their returns in the November 2023 general election. Statewide turnout will pass into the history books at 36.41% for this year. That's the lowest Washington has seen since recordkeeping began.
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2023 statewide voter turnout could end up as the worst ever in Washington history

Excerpt: Washington State is at real risk of setting a new record for the worst general election turnout in state history.
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Teresa Mosqueda proposes amending Seattle’s charter to stagger council terms and prepare city for switch to even-year elections

Excerpt: Mosqueda is putting on the table a thoughtful proposal to adjust the election timing for Seattle's eleven executive and legislative positions. The proposal takes the form of a charter amendment that would be submitted to voters in November of 2024.
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King County 2023 Top Two voter turnout stalls out at around 30%, falling short of 35%

Excerpt: King County Elections staff had hoped that countywide turnout would surpass 35%, but it has stalled out at around 30%, and it looks like it will be below what it was in 2021 and 2019.
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Happening today: NPI’s Even Year Elections For All panel convenes at Netroots Nation ’23

Excerpt: Learn about the voting justice panel that the Northwest Progressive Institute is hosting at Netroots Nation 2023.
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Montana Republican legislators are working on switching cities to even-year elections

Excerpt: Bipartisan momentum for even year elections across the United States is growing, judging by an effort underway in Montana by Republican legislators to move city and municipal elections to higher turnout presidential and midterm years.
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Once upon a time, Washington cities had the freedom to choose their election timing

Excerpt: It used to be that many cities in Washington had the power to choose when their elections would be held. That's right: they once had the same freedom our bill proposes to give them! Learn about the history of the statute.
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NPI’s legislation to allow cities and towns to switch their elections to even-numbered years gets a “do pass” recommendation

Excerpt: A proposed state law developed by NPI and Senator Javier Valdez (D-46th District: Seattle) that would give cities and towns the freedom to switch their elections to even-numbered years passed out of the Senate State Government & Elections Committee on February 17th with a “do pass” recommendation, keeping the bill alive for further consideration.
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Senate State Government Committee hears NPI’s bill to give cities and towns the freedom to switch their elections to even years

Excerpt: Read our recap of the February 10th, 2023 public hearing on Senate Bill 5723, prime sponsored by Senator Javier Valdez at NPI's request and cosponsored by half of the Senate Democratic caucus.
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Senator Javier Valdez, NPI propose legislation to let WA cities switch elections to even years

Excerpt: Imagine being able to as much as double the turnout for important local offices -- and diversify it by an even greater magnitude -- with just one structural change. That's what even-year elections for local governments can do for us.
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The people have spoken, and they want even-year elections for local government positions

Excerpt: The passage of King County Charter Amendment 1 is part of a nationwide success story in these midterms. There's a growing movement in this country favoring even-year elections that had a clean sweep in 2022, with a total of thirteen even-year election measures identified by Ballotpedia all winning approval.
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The November midterm results are (mostly) in. How do they compare to our 2022 polling?

Excerpt: In this retrospective, NPI's founder and executive director assesses what our 2022 electoral poll findings were able to tell us about state and county-level races on the midterms ballot.
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Moving King County elections to even years will make county topics more visible to voters

Excerpt: Republican Reagan Dunn asks rhetorically if people will pay attention to county races if they're in even years. The answer is yes, they will... because county governance and county-level topics will be part of the mix in years when people are more attuned to politics and when the media's political coverage is more robust. 
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