DemDaily: The 2025 Election Calendar!
March 7, 2025
While we continue to reel from the aftermath of the 2024 presidential, the elections of 2025 are well underway.
Two gubernatorial races, in New Jersey and Virginia, head up the top races to watch in 2025.
There are also at least four special elections for US congressional seats and hundreds of mayoral, initiative, municipal, and local contests up in 40 states.
| New Jersey, where two-term Governor Phil Murphy (D) is term-limited and Democrats comfortably control both legislative chambers, will hold elections for Governor and the General Assembly. Virginia, often the bellwether for the following year's elections, will hold contests for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and House of Delegates. Democrats narrowly control the State Senate (21-19) and the State House (51-49). As Virginia is the only state that limits its Governor to one two-year term, Republican Glenn Youngkin will not be running for reelection. |
2025 ELECTION CALENDAR
(Mayorals listed are in the 100 largest cities as well as state capitals)
APRIL 2025
April 1: Florida's First Congressional District Special Election General
April 1: Florida's Sixth Congressional District Special Election General
April 1: Wisconsin Statewide General, Supreme Court Election
April 1: Jackson, Mississippi Mayoral Primary
April 1: Omaha, Nebraska Mayoral Primary
April 8: St. Louis, Missouri Mayoral General
April 15: Oakland, California Mayoral General
April 22: Jackson, Mississippi Mayoral Primary Runoff
MAY 2025
May 3: Fort Worth, Texas Mayoral General
May 3: Garland, Texas Mayoral General
May 3: Plano, Texas Mayoral General
May 3: San Antonio, Texas Mayoral General
May 6: Cincinnati, Ohio Mayoral Primary
May 6: Toledo, Ohio Mayoral Primary
May 13: Omaha, Nebraska Mayoral General
May 20: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mayoral Primary
| Although most mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan, 64 mayors in the nation's most populous 100 cities are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 29 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one with the Libertarian Party, three are Independents, four nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and three mayors' affiliations are unknown. |
JUNE 2025
June 10: New Jersey Statewide Primary
June 17: Virginia Statewide Primary
June 24: New York, New York Mayoral Primary
June 24: Albany, New York Mayoral Primary
June 24: Buffalo, New York Mayoral Primary
AUGUST 2025
August 5: Lansing, Michigan Mayoral Primary
August 5: Seattle, Washington Mayoral Primary
SEPTEMBER 2025
September 9: Cleveland, Ohio Mayoral Primary
September 9: Charlotte, North Carolina Mayoral Primary
September 16: Annapolis, Maryland Mayoral Primary
September 23: Boston, Massachusetts Mayoral Primary
OCTOBER 2025
October 11: New Orleans, Louisiana Mayoral General
NOVEMBER 2025
November 4: Hialeah, Florida Mayoral Primary
November 4: General Elections Nationwide
Mayorals in Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Annapolis, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Detroit, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Paul, Minnesota; Concord, New Hampshire; Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albany, New York; Buffalo, New York; New York, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio and Seattle, Washington. Pennsylvania Supreme Court elections.
November 11: Hialeah, Florida Mayoral General
November 15: New Orleans, Louisiana General Runoff
November 18: Miami, Florida Mayoral General Runoff
DECEMBER 2025
December 2: Atlanta, Georgia Mayoral General runoff
| 2025 US House Special Elections: Florida's First (Matt Gaetz-R) and Sixth Congressional District (Michael Waltz-R) will go to the ballot April 1. Dates for a third, following the recent passing of Democratic Congressman Sylvester Turner (TX-CD 18), and a fourth, in New York's 21st CD where incumbent Elise Stefanik (R) is expected to resign to serve as Trump's US Ambassador to the United Nations, have yet to be determined. |
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