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On The Ballot for Charlotte-Mecklenburg in 2022

It'due south been a long time, only information technology appears we're finally going to exist able to vote in municipal elections this twelvemonth. Thank you to a delay in receiving 2020 Demography information followed by a courtroom claiming to new North Carolina congressional maps , nosotros've seen election deadlines and voting dates pushed dorsum multiple times.

Now that candidacy filing has closed and new dates are ready, we're looking at ane of the near jam-packed local election years in recent memory, with city elections starting in spring followed by county, state and national elections in the fall (pending whatever further court appeals to the Feb. 23 court determination approving congressional maps ).

That'south a lot to take in, then we've put together a guide to help make it all make sense. Beneath you can find all the resources you lot demand to know regarding where and when to vote, deadlines and dates for both the bound and fall elections, and a list of all candidates who have filed to run in our coverage area this yr.

VOTER Resources LINKS

2022 Master ELECTION

ABSENTEE VOTING BEGINS

MONDAY, MARCH 28

VOTER REGISTRATION Borderline

Fri, APRIL 22

IN-PERSON Early on VOTING BEGINS

Th, APRIL 28

DEADLINE TO Asking ABSENTEE BALLOT

TUESDAY, MAY ten

IN-PERSON EARLY VOTING ENDS

Sat, MAY 14

STATEWIDE PRIMARY ELECTION Day AND ABSENTEE Ballot Deadline

TUESDAY, MAY 17

FEDERAL SECOND PRIMARY Ballot & MUNICIPAL General Election

TUESDAY, JULY 26

2022 General Election

ABSENTEE VOTING BEGINS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE

FRIDAY, Oct 14

IN-PERSON Early on VOTING BEGINS

Th, October xx

DEADLINE TO REQUEST ABSENTEE Election

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1

IN-PERSON Early VOTING ENDS

Saturday, November five

STATEWIDE GENERAL Election DAY AND ABSENTEE BALLOT DEADLINE

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER viii

CERTIFICATION OF Ballot

Fri, NOVEMBER 18

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**The following list is a working document and only includes candidates running for Charlotte Urban center Council, Mecklenburg County Commissioner, and District Attorney. Check dorsum here for a continuation of comprehensive listings including all candidates running to represent the Charlotte expanse on this page. **

ON THE Ballot

Urban center OF CHARLOTTE MAYOR (two YEARS)

VI LYLES

Autonomous incumbent candidate

Political experience: Charlotte Mayor, 2017-nowadays; Charlotte City Council at-large rep, 2013-2017; assistant city manager

Related experience: Consulting managing director, Lee Institute and Flynn Wellness Holt Leadership; Charlotte Housing Authority Moving Forward initiative; Commission of 21 transportation initiative; Charlotte-Mecklenburg African American Agenda; Achieve Together community-based advocacy education initiative

Platform: Affordable housing, economic evolution, community safety

LUCILLE PUCKETT

Democrat

Political experience: None

Related experience: Founder, Accept Back Our Hoods

Platform: Community rubber, police reform, gun violence

TIGRESS MCDANIEL

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related feel: Creator, EVOLVE Media

Platform: Affordable housing, governmental transparency, environmental sustainability

TALATHIA MCKENZIE

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related experience: Founder, Tae's Beauty; accessibility advocate

Platform: Unavailable

STEPHANIE DE SARACHAGA-BILBAO

Republican

Political experience: None

Related experience: Background in media and finance, married to CMPD officeholder

Platform: Public safety

MOHAMED MOUSTAFA

Republican

Political Feel: None

Related Experience: Owner, Universal Cab; sued the city in 2015 over declared corruption in "pay-to-play" bargain for taxis at the airport

Platform: Unavailable

CHARLOTTE CITY Council AT-LARGE (2 YEARS - VOTE FOR 4)

DIMPLE AJMERA

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political feel: Charlotte City Council at-large rep, 2017-nowadays; chair, Surround, Engagement and Equity Committee; vice-chair, Budget and Governance; former Charlotte Housing Authorization board member

Related experience: Certified Public Accountant, TIAA and Deloitte; Leadership Fellowship with the Institute of Political Leadership

Platform: Affordable housing, public safety, sustainability, infrastructure

Braxton Winston

BRAXTON WINSTON Iii

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: Charlotte City Council at-large rep, 2017-nowadays; co-chair, Intergovernmental Relations Committee

Related feel: Stagehand, member of International Alliance of Theatrical Phase Employees (IATSE) marriage; board fellow member with: My Brother's Keeper Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Board of Trustees of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Smart Starting time of Mecklenburg County, Habitat for Humanity's Charlotte Neighborhood Revitalization Commission

Platform: Equity, access, interconnection

Larken Egleston

LARKEN EGLESTON

Democrat

Political feel: Charlotte Urban center Council District 1 rep, 2017-present; chair, Prophylactic Communities Committee; former president, Young Democrats of Mecklenburg County; old board member, Plaza Midwood Neighborhood Association

Related experience: Volunteer fireman, Long Creek Volunteer Fire Department; former vice-chair, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Celebrated Landmarks Commission; one-time chair, Charlotte International Cabinet

Platform: Housing, transportation, preservation

LAWANA MAYFIELD

Democrat

Political experience: Charlotte City Council District iii rep, 2011-2019; onetime fellow member, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee; erstwhile president, Centralina Economic Evolution Commission

Related experience: Member, International Minority Coalition; board member, LGBT Democrats of Mecklenburg Canton; former fellow member, Immigrant Solidarity Committee; former fellow member, Charlotte Community Justice Coalition; former executive board member, Homo Rights Entrada; former lath member, Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund

Platform: Property values, economic growth, community prophylactic

PATRICK CANNON

Democrat

Political experience: Charlotte Mayor, 2013-14 (deposed after arrest on fraud charges); Charlotte City Council District 3 rep, 1993-2001; Charlotte City Quango at-big rep, 2001-2013

Related experience : Founder, E-Z Parking

Platform: Inclusivity, intentionality, involvement

JAMES MITCHELL

Democrat

Political experience: Charlotte Metropolis Quango at-large rep, 1999-2021

Related experience: President and co-owner, RJ Leeper Construction, January 2021-July 2021

Platform: Unavailable

DAVID MERRILL

Republican

Political Experience: None

Related Experience: National sales managing director, Inhabit; Hawkeye Scout and banana scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America.

Platform: Public safety, lower taxes

KYLE LUEBKE

Republican

Political experience: Treasurer, Mecklenburg County Young Republicans; President, Log Cabin Republicans of North Carolina

Related feel: Corporate finance attorney, U.S. Banking concern and McGuireWoods; Vice Chair, The Plus Collective (formerly the Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund)

Platform: Property revenue enhancement freeze, transportation, small business

CARRIE OLINSKI

Republican

Political experience: Unavailable

Related experience: Unavailable

Platform: Public safe

CHARLES MULLIGAN

Republican

Political experience: None

Related feel: Founder & CEO, BrewPublik

Platform: Public prophylactic, minor business concern

DAVID RICE

Republican

Political experience: None

Related experience: Founder, Access 21 Goggle box ministry Lord God Ricetown XV

Platform: Unavailable

CHARLOTTE CITY Quango DISTRICTS (2 YEARS)

DANTE ANDERSON

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related feel: Business executive, Cisco and Wal-Mart; Management consulting, Anderson Consulting; Board of directors, Walton Arts Center; Advisory board fellow member, Center for Women's Business Research; International Committee fellow member, American Eye Association

Platform: Livable wage, affordable housing, community safety

Baton MADDALON

Democrat

Political experience: Metropolis council Commune 1 rep, July 2013-December 2013; lath fellow member: Visit Charlotte and Charlotte Regional Visitors Authorisation

Related experience: Director, Alexander Youth Network; Board member, Time Out Youth; president, NC State Alumni Association

Platform: Affordable housing, transportation, public safety

CHARLENE HENDERSON

Democrat

Political experience: Fellow member, Customs Relations Committee 2021-present; member, Park & Recreation Commission and Advisory Lath

Related experience: Vice president, Safeguard Absolve Validate Educate

Platform: Affordable housing, infrastructure, public condom

Malcolm Graham

MALCOLM GHRAHAM

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: Charlotte Urban center Quango District 4 rep, 1999-2005; Charlotte City Council Commune 2 rep, 2019-nowadays; chair, dandy neighborhood and economic evolution committees; Due north.C. State Senate, 2005-2015

Related feel: Executive director, Beds for Kids; former special assistant to the president for authorities and community affairs, Johnson C. Smith University; formerly Depository financial institution of America and Fourth dimension Warner Cable

Platform: Police reform, customs-showtime evolution, racial justice

KENDRICK CUNNINGHAM JR.

Democrat

Political experience: Presidential boyfriend, Democratic National Committee

Related experience: Youth engagement fellow, United nations Association of the The states; community organizer, QC Family unit Tree

Platform: Housing, reducing juvenile delinquency, cultural economic system

AMAR JOHNSON

Democrat

Political feel: President, Seversville Neighborhood Association

Related experience: Unavailable

Platform: Unavailable

MARY BARNETT

Republican

Political experience: None

Related feel: Unavailable

Platform: Unavailable

Victoria Watlington

VICTORIA WATLINGTON

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: Metropolis council District 3 rep, 2019-present; former vice chair, Civil Service Board; old member, Business organization Advisory Committee

Related experience: Engineering, initiative direction and operations management in the consumer product goods industry; State Utilise Committee chair, West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition; United Fashion Cardinal Carolinas Immature Leaders Council

Platform: Workforce development, stiff neighborhoods, strategic mobility network

TIAWANA Brown

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related experience: Founder, Beauty After the Confined; board member, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls; lath member, Concerned Citizens for Communities in Action; managing director, Center for Employment Opportunities Charlotte

Platform: Unavailable

JAMES H. BOWERS

Republican

Political experience: None

Related experience: Unavailable

Platform: Unavailable

Renee Johnson

RENEE JOHNSON

Autonomous incumbent candidate

Political feel: City council District 4 rep, 2019-present

Related experience: Executive director, Triumph Services; former board chair, Montessori Renaissance Community School; former board member: Rahab's Hideaway, United Faith of America, Brand Information technology Happen foundations

Platform: Affordable housing, homelessness, job cosmos

DARLENE HEATER

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related experience: Chair, SHARE Charlotte and Envision Charlotte; old executive managing director, University City Partners; former vice president of neighborhood evolution and sustainability, Charlotte Middle City Partners

Platform: Affordable housing, public safety, sustainability

CEDRIC DEAN

Democrat

Political experience: None

Related feel: President, Safeguard Atone Validate Brainwash; Executive manager, NAACP Prison Branch 5135

Platform: Supporting constabulary officers, affordable housing, lower taxes

LIZ MILLSAPS HAIGLER

Democrat

Political Experience: Former secretary, NC 12th Congressional Commune Democrats; former treasurer and 3rd vice chair, Mecklenburg Senior Democrats; old treasurer and secretary, Progressive Democrats of Mecklenburg Canton; co-chair, Oakhurst Community Neighborhood Clan

Related experience: Realtor and broker; board member, The Gold Commune and CharlotteEAST's economic development committee

Platform: Affordable housing, transportation, small business

VINROY REID

Democrat

Political experience: None

Related experience: Owner, Mama'southward Caribbean area Grill & Bar; Charlotte International Commission International Entrepreneur Honour honoree; general contractor

Platform: Unavailable

CURTIS HAYES JR.

Democrat

Political experience: None

Related experience: Community activist; owner, World Class Property Maintenance

Platform: Transportation, affordable housing, increasing minimum wage

MARK VINCENT Iii

Democrat

Political experience: None

Related experience: Electrical and IT support technician

Platform: Unionizing city employees, minimum wage increment, affordable housing

MARJORIE MOLINA

Democrat

Political experience: Member, Charlotte Equitable Evolution Commission; community organizer, Hillary for America

Related experience: Former board member, YMCA of Greater Charlotte Diversity, Inclusion, and Global Committee; former member, Mecklenburg County Women'due south Advisory Board; one-time Charlotte Sister Cities Scholar

Platform: Transportation, housing, infrastructure

Tariq Bokhairi

TARIQ BOKHARI

Republican incumbent candidate

Political experience: Urban center council District half-dozen rep, 2017-present; co-chair, Intergovernmental Relations Committee

Related experience: Co-founder and executive managing director, Carolina Fintech Hub; formerly GE Capital, Wells Fargo and Wachovia

Platform: Economical evolution, transportation, public safety

NANCY WIGGINS

Democrat

Political experience: Planning commission,1994-1999 and 2014-2020; quondam vice chair, Zoning Commission; former chair, Transportation and Planning Committee; former fellow member, Mecklenburg Solid Waste management board

Related experience: Commercial real estate broker; adjunct professor: UNC Charlotte, Johnson C. Smith, Queens, Winthrop, and Wingate universities; Mecklenburg County Order of the Hornet in 2020 honoree

Platform: Law-breaking, pedestrian safety, housing

STEPHANIE Paw

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related experience: Deacon, Western North Carolina Conference United Methodist Church; sometime community outreach manager, Charlotte Family Housing; former executive operations managing director, Marriott International

Platform: Infrastructure, economic development, community safe

ROBERT HILLMAN

Democrat

Political experience: Represented Due north Carolina as a President Obama delegate to the 2012 Autonomous National Convention; area coordinator, Obama for America in 2008

Related experience: Finan ce executive in investment banking; former commissioner, Centralina Economic Development Commission; former lath member, Customs Culinary Schoolhouse of Charlotte; formerly on the planning committees for Charlotte'southward Taste of the Nation and Charlotte Literary Festival.

Platform: Growth, transportation and public prophylactic

Ed Driggs

ED DRIGGS

Republican incumbent candidate

Political experience: Urban center council District 7 rep, 2013-present; vice chair, Economic Development and Budget committees

Related experience: Financial advisor; old board fellow member, Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont, Communities in Schools, and Blumenthal Performing Arts

Platform: Small government, task creation, transparency

CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOL BOARD (4 YEARS)

NON-PARTISAN, VOTED ON DURING General Ballot

DISTRICT ane

DISTRICT 2

DISTRICT 3

DISTRICT 4

District 5

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Canton COMMISSIONER AT-Large (two YEARS - VOTE FOR 3)

LEIGH ALTMAN

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: Mecklenburg County commissioner at-large, 2020-present; chair of BOCC Functioning Review Committee, 2020-present; Mecklenburg County Autonomous Party Precinct 9 chair, 2017-2020

Related experience: Attorney, 1997-2014

Platform: Public wellness, parks and greenways, reducing gun violence

PAT COTHAM

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political feel: Mecklenburg County commissioner at-big, 2014-present; Democratic National Convention superdelegate, 2016

Related experience: Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, trustee

Platform: Employment, schools, housing & homelessness

ARTHUR GRIFFIN

Democrat

Political experience: CMS Board of Education at-big member, 1988-2003; chair of CMS Board of Education, 1997-2002; chair of Charlotte Black Political Caucus, 2017-2019

Related experience: McGraw Hill, 2004-2015

Platform: Affordable housing, parks and greenways, economical equity

JENNIFER DE LA JARA

Democrat

Political experience: CMS Lath of Education at-large member 2019-present

Related experience: International House Director of Didactics, 2019; CPCC instructor, 2001-2012

Platform: Education, economic evolution, environmental stewardship/parks

YVETTE TWONSEND-INGRAM

Democrat

Political feel: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Customs Relations Committee, 2019-present

Related experience: Concierge Business, Political and Instruction Consulting founder, 2020-nowadays

Platform: Nutrient insecurity, minority and women-owned pocket-size businesses

TRINA BOYD

Democrat

Political feel: None

Related feel: Women in Ability Inc. founder, 2014-present; Palisades Park Uncomplicated PTSA vice president

Platform: Affordable housing, housing & homelessness, economic development

TATYANA THULIEN

Republican

Political feel: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee member, 2021-present

Related experience: Executive banana at The Museum of Russian Art, 2017-2018; instructor at Virtuoso School of Music & Art, 2018-present

Platform: Unavailable

COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICTS (two YEARS)

District 1

ELAINE POWELL

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political feel: District ane Mecklenburg County commissioner, 2019-present; Mecklenburg Lath of County Commissioners vice chair, 2019-present; Environmental Stewardship Commission chair, 2019-nowadays; Mecklenburg Canton Park & Recreation Commission chair, 2010-2018; Natural Resources Stewardship Advisory Quango chair, 2010-2018; Mecklenburg County Waste Management Advisory Board member, 2001-2009

Related experience: Multiple roles at CMS, 1989-2014

Platform: Public education, economical growth, sustainability

GARY LEONE

Republican

Political experience: Unavailable

Related experience: Unavailable

Platform: Unavailable

DISTRICT 2

VILMA LEAKE

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political feel: District 2 Mecklenburg County Commissioner, 2008-nowadays; CMS Lath of Education fellow member, 1997-2008; CMS Policy Commission vice chair, dates unavailable; Modest Business Consortium Group founder, 2011

Related experience: Former teacher, Northward Carolina Association of Educators, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Association of Educators

Platform: Small business

ANGELA EDWARDS

Democrat

Political experience: Reid Park Academy P.T.O. president; Charlotte Expanse Fund lath member, 2018

Related experience: System of Care mental health trainer

Platform: Unavailable

DISTRICT 3

GEORGE DUNLAP

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: District three Mecklenburg County Commissioner, 2008-present; Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners Chair, 2018-nowadays; Commune 3 CMS Board of Education representative, 1986-2008

Related experience: CMPD officeholder, 1978-1995; CMPD Drug Abuse Resistance Educator, 1993-2005

Platform: Affordable housing, economic evolution, community prophylactic

DIANNA BENSON

Republican

Political experience: Mecklenburg Canton Republican Party Voter Registration Co-Chair, 2021-present; Mecklenburg Black Republican Club

Related experience: Unavailable

Platform: Unavailable

DISTRICT iv

Marking JERRELL

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: District 4 Mecklenburg County Commissioner, 2020-present; Economic Development Committee co-chair; Black Political Conclave Executive Committee member

Related experience: Speechworks Therapy Services Operations Managing director; North Carolina Regular army National Baby-sit

Platform: Elder care, improving education, minor business organization

RAYMUNDO FUENTES

Republican

Political experience: Unavailable

Related experience: Environmental Compliance Manager, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated

Platform: Unavailable

District 5

LAURA MEIER

Autonomous incumbent candidate

Political experience: District 5 Mecklenburg County Commissioner, 2020-present; Charlotte Women's Move co-president, 2018-2020

Related experience: Social studies instructor with CMS drop-out prevention program

Platform: Early babyhood teaching, parks and greenish spaces, mental-health services

MATTHEW RIDENHOUR

Republican

Political feel: District 5 Mecklenburg Canton Commissioner, 2012-2018; Economic Development Commission chair; Steele Creek Preparatory University Board of Directors chair

Related feel: Cybersecurity consultant, 2018-present; U.S. Marine Corps, 2001-2012

Platform: Parks and greenways, schools, public prophylactic

District 6

SUSAN RODRIGUEZ-MCDOWELL

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: District 6 Mecklenburg County Commissioner, 2018-nowadays; Economical Development Committee chair, 2021-present

Related feel: Colorado Christian University Director of Counseling Services, 1995-1996; lensman, 2008-2015

Platform: Income equality, racial equality, environment

DESIREE ZAPATA MILLER

Republican

Political experience: North Carolina ninth District Secretary, 2021-present; N Carolina Federation of Republican Women Foothills Region Vice President

Related experience: Customer service managing director, 1997-2011

Platform: Supporting CMPD, lowering taxes, economic evolution

JEREMIAH BRASCH

Republican

Political experience: Unavailable

Related feel: Corporate analyst, 2008-2019; U.Due south. Air Force Weapons Specialist, 1994-1998

Platform: Unavailable

Commune Attorney (4 YEARS)

TIM EMRY

Democrat

Political feel: Mecklenburg Canton assistant public defender, 2003-2006

Related experience: Criminal defence attorney, founderm The Emry Law Business firm, 2012-present; Senior acquaintance attorney at Powers McCartan, 2006-2012

Platform: Ending the death punishment, police accountability, reducing mass incarceration

SPENCER B. MERRIWEATHER 3

Democratic incumbent candidate

Political experience: Mecklenburg Canton District Attorney, 2017-nowadays; Mecklenburg County assistant district attorney, 2006-present

Related experience:

Platform: Sex crimes, drug trafficking, reducing recidivism

**The preceding listing is a working document and merely includes candidates running for Charlotte City Council, Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners, and District Attorney. Check back here for a continuation of comprehensive listings including all candidates running to represent the Charlotte expanse on this page. The listing will continue below **

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