Bridgeport, Connecticut elects School Board members in partisan elections. The Working Families Party already has three seats on the nine-member Board, although two of its members are up for re-election this year. The party hopes to increase its strength on the board. On August 10, the party nominated three candidates for the election that will be held November 5, 2013. One of the party’s incumbents, John Bagley, is not up for re-election this year, so if the party elects all three of its candidates, it will have four seats on the Board.

The party’s three candidates this year are Sauda Baraka (who is running for re-election), Eric Stewart-Alicea, and Andre Baker. Incumbent WFP member Maria Pereira is not running for re-election.

Baker is also seeking the Democratic nomination in the September 10 primary, but the recent Democratic Party nominating convention rejected Baker and endorsed three other Democrats. If Baker still manages to win the Democratic primary, his name will appear on the November ballot twice, under both the Democratic and Working Families labels. The other two WFP nominees are not seeking the Democratic nomination.