Elections

Registered voters in DC’s Ward 8 can begin casting their ballots at 10 a.m. Friday for the special election on July 15.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s Democratic primary win Tuesday concluded one of the more crowded competitive primary fields in recent memory.

Voting is underway in Prince George’s County as residents weigh in on their picks for county executive and District 5 council member.

Prince George’s County residents told News4 which issues are top of mind as they vote for county executive and the District 5 council member. The polls are open Tuesday, June 3, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Virginia Republicans are dealing with a bit of an identity crisis that’s stirring up controversy. As first reported by Brandon Jarvis at the Virginia Scope, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican candidate for governor, hand wrote a note opposing same-sex marriage on anti-marriage-discrimination legislation that passed the General Assembly and was signed by Gov. Youngking last year. “I haven’t...

An openly gay state lawmaker in Virginia responded to news that the Republican candidate for governor hand wrote a note on a bill that passed the General Assembly, implying she’s morally opposed to same sex marriage.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is asking his party’s candidate vying to be Virginia’s next lieutenant governor to step aside.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who rose to prominence in the Senate during nearly three decades of service, has announced he won’t seek reelection.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE Act, is Republican-sponsored legislation which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections.

Tuesday’s elections in Wisconsin and Florida were kind to the favorites, but not to billionaire White House adviser Elon Musk.

President Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to implement broad changes to how elections are run in the U.S., but there are already questions about whether he has the authority to make those changes. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

Smartmatic settled a related defamation lawsuit in April against One America News for an undisclosed sum.

The Trump administration’s downsizing and disbanding of federal agencies has hit efforts that improve election security and monitor foreign influence.

It’s the first time in modern D.C. history that the Council has expelled one of its own members. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Voters in Loudoun County cast ballots Tuesday in a crucial special election that could shift the balance of power in the Virginia General Assembly. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey spoke to voters at an Ashburn polling place.

Virginia Democrats have preserved their Statehouse majority in special elections. The special elections Tuesday were the first official races in Virginia since November’s general election. President-elect Donald Trump’s win had left many Democrats reckoning with their losses in federal elections. They were able to retain their Statehouse majority when Democratic Del. Kannan Srinivasan defeated Republican Tumay Harding and Democrat JJ...

Four years ago, then-President Donald Trump rallied his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and urged his vice president to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. No such drama is expected when Congress convenes to count the Electoral College vote this Jan. 6 — Monday.

Over the next two years, 38 governor’s elections will be on the ballot, including in presidential battlegrounds and states with term-limited incumbents.

A man suspected of burglarizing a Trump campaign office in Virginia was arrested in California over the weekend, authorities said.