Carol Schwartz is an American politician from Washington,D.C.,who served as a Republican at-large member on the Council of the District of Columbia from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1997 to 2009. A five-time perennial candidate for mayor,she is the only Republican nominee since the restoration of home rule to garner more than 30 percent of the vote. She announced her fifth campaign for Mayor of the District of Columbia on June 9,2014 finishing behind Muriel Bowser and David Catania. In 2015,she was appointed to the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability by Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Philip Heath Mendelson is an American politician from Washington,D.C. He is currently Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia,elected by the Council on June 13,2012,following the resignation of Kwame R. Brown. He was elected to serve the remainder of Brown's term in a citywide special election on November 6,2012,and re-elected to a full term in 2014 and 2018.
Linda Washington Cropp is an American politician from Washington,D.C.,the capital of the United States. She was a Democratic member of the Council of the District of Columbia,where she was the first woman to serve as the elected Council Chairman. On September 12,2006,she lost the Democratic Primary for Mayor to Adrian Fenty. This loss came in spite of the fact that Cropp had been endorsed by outgoing mayor Anthony A. Williams. She was succeeded as Council Chairman by Vincent C. Gray.
Adrian Malik Fenty is an American politician who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2011.
Vincent Condol Gray is an American politician who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 2011 to 2015.
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 Arrington Brown is an American politician in Washington,D.C. In 2008,he was elected an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia,and he served one four-year term.
Charlene Drew Jarvis is an American educator and former scientific researcher and politician who served as the president of Southeastern University until March 31,2009. Jarvis is the daughter of the blood plasma and blood transfusion pioneer Charles Drew.
Thomas Clayton Wells is an American politician,social worker and lawyer from Washington,DC. He was a member of the Council of the District of Columbia where he served as a Democrat representing Ward 6. Wells is now the director of the DC Mayor’s Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs after serving as the director for the District Department of Energy &Environment (DOEE) for 8 years where he was chiefly responsible for protecting the environment and conserving the natural resources of the District of Columbia.
Muriel Elizabeth Bowser is an American politician serving since 2015 as the mayor of the District of Columbia. 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.
On November 2,2010,Washington,D.C.,held an election for its mayor. The primary elections occurred on September 14. Vincent Gray won the general election by a wide margin,although many voters wrote in incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty,whom Gray defeated in the primary.
The mayor of the District of Columbia is the head of the executive branch of the government of the District of Columbia. The mayor has the duty to enforce district laws,and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the D.C. Council. In addition,the mayor oversees all district services,public property,police and fire protection,most public agencies,and the district public school system. The mayor's office oversees an annual district budget of $8.8 billion. The mayor's executive office is located in the John A. Wilson Building in Downtown Washington,D.C. The mayor appoints several officers,including the deputy mayors for Education and Planning &Economic Development,the district administrator,the chancellor of the district's public schools,and the department heads of the district agencies.
The Libertarian Party of the District of Columbia is a political party in the United States active in the District of Columbia. It is a recognized affiliate of the national Libertarian Party.
Anita Bonds is an American Democratic politician in Washington,D.C. She is an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia. She served as the Chair of the District of Columbia Democratic Party from 2006 to 2018. She worked as an executive at Fort Myer Construction,a District contractor.
On November 4,2014,Washington,D.C.,held an election for its mayor,concurrently with U.S. Senate elections in various states and U.S. House elections and various state and local elections.
Charles Allen is an American Democratic politician in Washington,D.C. and member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 6. He took office on January 2,2015,after winning the Democratic Party primary and following general election in 2014 and won re-election in 2018.
On November 6,2018,Washington,D.C.,held an election for its mayor. Incumbent Democrat Muriel Bowser won re-election,becoming the first Mayor to do so for Washington,D.C.,since Anthony A. Williams won a second term in 2002.
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.
The 2022 District of Columbia Attorney General election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the next attorney general for the District of Columbia. This was the third attorney general election in D.C. history.
Washington,D.C.,is a political division coterminous with the District of Columbia,the federal district of the United States. The enactment of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in 1973 provided for an elected mayor for the first time in nearly a century. Starting in 1974,there have been thirteen elections for mayor and six people have held the office. The Democratic Party has immense political strength in the district. In each of the mayoral elections,the district has solidly voted for the Democratic candidate,with no margin less than 14 percentage points.
