What are slated candidates?
Published Aug 09, 2022 10:36 by Reed Sutman. Updated Aug 09, 2022 10:39Many candidates participate in the Primary election. Primaries involve voting amongst your own political party to pick which candidates will run for a particular office or in a particular district. Slated candidates are added to the ballot after the primary to fill out the ballot.
For example, each County Board District has 3 positions up for election this year (2022), so each party runs up to 3 candidates in the November election. County Board District 5 had four Republican candidates and one Democratic candidate for the June 28th Primaries. Hubert W Murray (R) lost in the Primaries, so the other three Republican candidates proceed. Democrats still had two vacancies, so could have slated up to two more candidates. Democrats did slate one new candidate for District 5, named Tony Wilkins.
The due date for slating county candidates was Monday July 25th, 2022.
All slated County Candidates for 2022:
- Sheriff (D): Shannon Gutierrez-Seal
- Shannon later withdrew due to rules regarding primary ballots.
- County Treasurer (D): Melverta Wilkins
- County Clerk (D): Kathryn McAlpine
- County Board District 3 (D): Jon Moore
- County Board District 5 (D): Tony Wilkins