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Your local school board candidates are affiliated with a political party
Those random elections for some hospital position or something to do with a college have candidates affiliated with political parties.
The two party system is just a stupid way for people to show up, vote for a team, and go home. Its wild
No they are not, not officially anyways. There is plenty of crossover, where someone who is officially part of a federal or provincial party will run for mayor, but those parties aren't involved and they have to step down from those roles to run.
I just didn't know America's 2 party system went all the way down to municipal. That's fuxked.
I think they are referring to that there are primaries for mayor. In my town people just run for mayor, like there is only one election and then maybe a runoff. You know what party they represent but they are technically not allowed to run on a party ticket. The end result of this is that in the most recent election, in a red state and red county, the runoff was between a liberal and a centrist and the liberal won.
It's new york. It's a city so prestigious that being the former governor of the right party doesn't guarantee you'll win. Partyless elections are usually for low prestige roles