Mississippi Today (https://mississippitoday.org/category/election/page/2/)
Democrats struggle to recruit House and Senate candidates to run in November general election and have little margin for error in effort to capture a majority.
City officials passed two resolutions for voters to weigh in on: a proposed property tax increase and a measure to abolish the Clarksdale Public Utilities Commission
With the qualifying deadline less than a month away, Mississippi senator says he’s had a couple of conversations with President Trump, who has been very supportive.
Campaign finance reports filed Thursday with the Secretary of State’s office detail candidates’ expenditures and contributions for 2018.
A top Republican suggests the strategy may signal a weak field of Democratic candidates
Both commissions will probably have two of three seats open for this year’s elections
Since the original deadline falls on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, candidates have until Jan. 22nd to file
Who’s in? Who’s out? The jockeying has already begun in the 2019 Mississippi statewide elections
The three-term Republican secretary of state and Democratic State Rep. Jay Hughes are the only announced candidates
How the state’s fiscal condition stacks up against significant budget cuts in recent years expected to play out in statewide races this year.
A first-term Democrat from Oxford, Hughes is among the first to officially qualify to run for statewide office
The secretary of state’s office recently released certified results from the Nov. 6 and Nov. 27 elections that show Democrats performed better than what was initially reported
Senator’s 8-point win decisive, despite what backers call unfair coverage of hanging comment by national and local media.
As chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, the congressman would have oversight over key immigration enforcement agencies
Unofficial results show Espy getting 46 percent of the vote – the most for a Democrat running statewide for national office in Mississippi since at least 1988.