West Virginia Bill to Require All City and Town Elections to be Partisan

West Virginia Delegate Jimmy Willis (R-Brooke) has introduced HB 4080. It would require that cities and towns must use partisan elections to choose their own officers. Currently, as in most states, each city or town decides for itself whether to have partisan or non-partisan elections.


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West Virginia Bill to Require All City and Town Elections to be Partisan — 12 Comments

  1. I can’t imagine a worse idea than compelling all citizens who wish to hold public office to announce allegiance with a segmented group within the population that would be their constituency. There’s nothing wrong with standing for office publicly on one’s own ideas and character.

  2. Each municipality should be able to determine on their own how to conduct their elections.

  3. Keeping party labels off the ballot doesn’t make the candidates “stand on their own ideas.” It just makes the candidates aligned with smaller parties or factions even less competitive.

  4. @WZ,

    Municipalities are not sovereign. There is no reason to have them mucking with electoral arrangements when they should be concentrating on things like providing water and policing, and stoplights.

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