Today is the day that candidates for County Board (37 Seats!), School Board (3 seats) and City Council (1 seat) can start circulating nomination papers . . . but shockingly few have filed paperwork to allow them to begin!
I will continue to update the 2020 Spring Elections Tab on this website. You can find out more information about candidates running for County Board, School Board and City Council.
Candidates have to have their campaign registration statement in before you can declare their candidacy and start raising money and circulating nomination papers. I’ve seen people get this wrong before and because we generally have values that we want to err on the side of allowing people to run, its not been enforced that I can remember. But technically, today is the day candidates can start circulating nomination papers! However, only these candidates have filed their campaign registration statements according to the clerks offices (County, City/Schools):
READY TO SIGN NOMINATION PAPERS
From the county clerk’s website:
City Council
District 8 (Seat vacated by Avra Reddy, Sally Rohrer appointed to fill seat until this election)
- Max Prestigiacomo
School Board
Seat 2 (Seat vacated by Mary Burke, Savion Castro appointed to fill seat until this election)
- Savion Castro
County Board
District 1
- Eilzabeth Doyle – Incumbent
District 2
- Heidi Wegleitner – Incumbent
District 5 – Hayley Young not running
- Elena Haasi
- Jose Rea
District 6
- Yogesh Chawla – Incumbent
District 8
- Carousel Bayrd – Incumbent
District 14 – Huong Nguyen-Hilfiger – Incumbent with no papers filed
- Anthony Gray
District 25
- Tim Kiefer – Incumbent
District 32 – Jason Knoll – Incumbent – Not running for re-election (filed paperwork)
- Mike Bare
District 33
- Ann Degarmo – Incumbent
CAN’T START CIRCULATING NOMINATION PAPERS YET
Those who technically have to get paperwork in includes everyone else. Here’s the seats one would have expected people to have filed papers for by now – either incumbents running again or new people running to fill their seats.
School Board
Seat 6 – Kate Toews incumbent
Seat 7 – Nikki Vander Muelen incumbent
County Board
Reminder, the following seats are currently open
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- County Supervisor District 5 – Hayley Young
- County Supervisor District 9 – Paul Nelson
- County Supervisor District 28 – Nikki Jones
- County Supervisor District 32 – Jason Knoll
- And Sharon Corrigan who has not filed papers, but was in the news indicating she is not running.
- Not running per the Cap Times – Dane County Board Chair Corrigan not running in 2020 (11/25/19)
- Not running per the State Journal – Dane County Board Chairwoman Sharon Corrigan not seeking reelection; says board ‘in good hands’ (11/25/19)
Not filed Campaign Registration papers yet:
District 3 -Analiese Eicher – Incumbent – Filed Declaration of Candidacy (11/18)
District 4 – Richard Kilmer – Incumbent
District 7 -Matt Veldran – Incumbent
District 9 – Paul Nelson not running
District 10 – Jeremy Levin – Incumbent
District 11 – Kelly Danner – Incumbent
District 12 – Paul Rusk – Incumbent
District 13 – Chuck Erickson – Incumbent
District 14 – Huong Nguyen-Hilfiger – Incumbent
District 15 – Steven Peters – Incumbent
District 16 – Jamie Kuhn – Incumbent
District 17 – Kristin Audet – Incumbent – Filed Declaration of Candidacy and Statement of Economic Interests (11/22)
District 18 – Michele Ritt – Incumbent
District 19 – Bill Clausius – Incumbent
District 20 – Julie Schwellenbach – Incumbent
District 21 – Andrew Schauer – Incumbent
District 22 – Maureen McCarville – Incumbent – Filed Declaration of Candidacy and Statement of Economic Interests (11/25)
District 23 – Sheila Stubbs – Incumbent -Filed Declaration of Candidacy (11/21)
District 24 – Tanya Buckingham – Incumbent
District 26 – Sharon Corrigan – Incumbent (not running but hasn’t filed papers)
- Holly Hatcher – Filed Declaration of Candidacy (11/25)
District 27 – Dorothy Krause – Incumbent
District 28 – Nikki Jones – Incumbent – Not running for re-election (filed paperwork)
District 29 – Dave Ripp – Incumbent
District 30 – Patrick Downing – Incumbent
District 31 – Jerry Bollig – Incumbent – Declaration of Candidacy – (11/27)
District 34 -Patrick Miles – Incumbent
District 35 – Carl Cehnoweth – Incumbent
District 36 – Melissa Ratcliff – Incumbent
District 37 – Bob Salov – Incumbent
