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  • 2023
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  • Ohio
    Primary Date: May 2, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: Aug. 8-Special Election 
  • Pennsylvania
    Primary Date: May 16, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: Feb. 7-Special Election 
  • New Jersey
    Primary Date: June 6, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: May 9-Municipal Nonpartisan Elections 
  • Washington
    Primary Date: August 1, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: Feb. 14-Special Election; April 25-Special Election 
  • Minnesota
    Primary Date: August 8, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: March 14-Township Elections 
  • Connecticut
    Primary Date: September 12, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: Feb. 28-Special Election; May 2-Municipal Election 
  • Montana
    Primary Date: September 12, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: May 2-Special Purpose District Election 
  • Iowa
    Primary Date: October 10, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 7 
    Other Elections: Dec. 5-City Runoff (if necessary) 
  • Louisiana
    Primary Date: October 14, 2023 
    Primary Runoff:  
    General Election: November 18 
    Other Elections: Jan. 14-Special Election; Feb. 18-Special Election; March 25-Municipal Primary & Special Election; April 29-Municipal General 
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electionline Weekly
November 16, 2023

Today’s Election Administration Landscape
Findings from the Reed College Elections & Voting Information Center’s 2023 Survey of Local Election Officials

By Paul Gronke, PhD | Paul Manson, PhD

As regular electionline Weekly readers know, the administration of elections in the United States is a decentralized system with a complex set of diverse institutional arrangements that vary across states and sub-state jurisdictions.

Nearly 8,000 officials spread across 50 states and the District of Columbia hold many titles. They are selected by many different methods, and have varying degrees of autonomy from their states (and their counties in the instance of villages, cities, etc., who conduct elections in Michigan, Wisconsin, and New England states). And, of course, they operate in very different political, demographic, and geographical environments.

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