Vincent Bernard Orange,Sr. is a former American politician from Washington,D.C.,and former president of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce. An attorney and a certified public accountant,Orange represented Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007,and was an at-large member from 2011 to 2016. He lost the June 2016 Democratic primary election to Robert White. Although his term was not due to end until January 2,2017,Orange resigned from the council effective August 15,2016,in the wake of conflict of interest charges over his new employment at the Chamber of Commerce.
John K. Evans III is an American lawyer and politician who served on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 2020 before resigning due to numerous ethics violations. Evans served as the chairman of the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) until its ethics committee found he violated conflict of interest rules. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Ward 2 of Washington,D.C. from May 1991 to January 2020,making him the D.C. Council's longest-serving lawmaker. He ran for Mayor in 1998 and 2014,but lost in the Democratic primary both times.
Michael Donald Brown is an American politician serving as the junior United States shadow senator from the District of Columbia,having served since 2007.
Muriel Elizabeth Bowser is an American politician who has served as the mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously represented the 4th ward as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt,and the first woman to be reelected to that position.
Kenyan R. McDuffie is an American lawyer and independent politician in Washington,D.C. He is an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia since 2023,after previously representing Ward 5 from 2012 to 2023.
David Grosso is an American attorney and politician. He is a former at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia who lives in Brookland. A native Washingtonian,he graduated from Earlham College and Georgetown University Law Center. Grosso is a member of the D.C. Bar. Following the completion of his second term on the D.C. Council,he joined the law firm Arent Fox as a lobbyist.
Brianne Nadeau is an American Democratic politician in Washington,D.C.,and a member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 1 since 2015. She defeated long-time incumbent Jim Graham in the Democratic Party primary and won the general election with 75% of the vote in 2014. She is the first woman to represent Ward 1 on the council and the first D.C. Councilmember to give birth while serving in office.
Brandon Tristan Todd is a lobbyist for Washington Gas and a former American politician who represented Ward 4 on the Council of the District of Columbia. Todd previously worked in the Council office of Muriel Bowser and in various campaign positions during her successful campaign for Mayor of the District of Columbia. Todd won a special election in May 2015,succeeding Muriel Bowser,who was elected as mayor. After serving one full term on the council,Todd lost the 2020 Democratic primary to Janeese Lewis George.
Trayon White is an American Democratic politician,currently serving as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia,representing Ward 8 of the District of Columbia. Before entering politics,he worked as a grassroots organizer and activist in the communities he would later represent on the Council. He won election to the Council in 2016,his second attempt for the seat held by Marion Barry until Marion's death.
Robert C. White Jr. is an American attorney and politician who has served on the Council of the District of Columbia since 2016.
Initiative 77 was a voter-approved ballot initiative in Washington,D.C.,to phase out the special minimum wage for tipped employees as part of the national Fight for $15 campaign. In the June 2018 primary election,D.C. voters approved Initiative 77 by a margin of 56% to 44%;however,the D.C. Council repealed the initiative in October before it could enter into force. In 2022,a nearly identical Initiative 82 was approved for the November 8,2022 election.
On November 8,2022,Washington,D.C.,held an election for its mayor. Incumbent Democrat Muriel Bowser was elected to a third term. The Republican nominee,Stacia Hall,received 2,368 votes in the primary,and independent candidate Rodney "Red" Grant garnered 4,700 signatures to gain ballot access. Both appeared on the general election ballot along with Libertarian Party candidate Dennis Sobin. D.C. Statehood Green Party nominee Corren Brown did not appear on the general election ballot.
Janeese Lewis George is an American lawyer,politician,and activist in Washington,D.C. She is the Member of the Council of the District of Columbia from Ward 4. George is a member of the Democratic Party.
Christina Henderson is an American politician in Washington,D.C. who was elected to the Council of the District of Columbia as an at-large member in 2020. Henderson previously worked for her predecessor,David Grosso,and served as a legislative aide in Congress. Henderson is an independent,not registered with any political party.
In 2020,a general election for Council of the District of Columbia was held on November 3,and a special election was held on June 27. Elections were held in four of the districts and one at-large. The Democratic Party retained its control of the city council and the council became majority female for the first time since the 1998 election.
On November 8,2022,a general election was held for the Council of the District of Columbia. Elections were held in four ward districts as well as for Chairperson of the council and two at-large seats. Democrats remained in control of the council,electing 6 out of the 7 positions that were on the ballot. Independent Kenyan McDuffin,formerly the Democratic councilperson for Ward 5,was also elected.
Joel Castón is an American politician and convicted murderer who is currently serving on the Washington,D.C. Sentencing Commission. In 2021,Castón was elected to serve as the commissioner for Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) district 7F07 while imprisoned in the D.C. Jail for murder,where he completed his sentence of over 20 years prior to being paroled. He became the first incarcerated person to win an election in the city and served on the ANC from June 2021 to January 2023. The election was the first in U.S. history where both the electorate and winning candidate were incarcerated. In February 2024,Castón was appointed to the Washington,D.C. Sentencing Commission,which helps shape sentencing guidelines for judges and prosecutors in D.C. Superior Court.
Initiative 82 was a voter-approved ballot initiative in Washington,D.C.,to phase out the special minimum wage for tipped employees as part of the national Fight for $15 campaign. In the November 2022 general election,D.C. voters approved Initiative 82 by a margin of 74% to 26%,though about 12% of all participating voters did not vote on the initiative. It was nearly identical to Initiative 77,a ballot measure in the 2018 primary election that was approved by D.C. voters but later overturned by the D.C. Council before it could enter into force.
The 2024 Council of the District of Columbia election will take on November 5,2024,to elect members to six seats on the city council. The primary will take place on June 4,2024.
Single-member district 7F08 of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 7F in Washington,D.C.,has existed since 2023,its electorate consisting entirely of inmates of the D.C. Jail. From 2013 to 2022,the jail's residents made up a majority of district 7F07,from which 7F08 was then carved out. As of December 2023,7F08's commissioner is Shameka Hayes.
