While Wake County’s two largest municipalities, Raleigh and Cary, delayed their elections until next year due to late census data, the 10 other towns in Wake—Apex, Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Holly Springs, Knightdale, Morrisville, Rolesville, Wake Forest, Wendell, and Zebulon—are all holding elections this fall. All of these towns are electing members to their town councils or boards of commissioners. Some are also electing mayors. A handful have bond referendum questions on the ballot, too. We’ve asked all the candidates running in these races to complete questionnaires that we’ve posted, and will continue to post as they come in, here on our website.
Early voting begins Thursday, October 14, and runs through October 30. If you’re a resident of one of these municipalities and haven’t registered to vote, you can do so and vote at the same time at one of several one-stop early voting locations throughout the county. If you’re registered to vote already, you can vote early or on Election Day at your precinct on November 2. If you don’t know whether you’re registered, you can check here.
Wake residents, please take some time to read our candidate questionnaires before you head out to the polls. While we won’t make any endorsements in these races, we do plan to bring you some additional elections coverage in the coming weeks, so check back often!
INDY Week partnered with Raleigh Convergence on some of the candidate questions and in sharing this important hyperlocal civic information. Find more Wake elections coverage on their website.
Apex
Town Council
Brett Gantt | Questionnaire
Ed Gray | Questionnaire
Christine Hale |
Audra Killingsworth | Questionnaire
Timothy Powell |
Gordon Williford |
Fuquay-Varina
Mayor
William Henry Harris |
Blake Massengill | Questionnaire
Ty Ziglar | Questionnaire
Board of Commissioners
Bryan Hanes |
Tracy Watson |
Jason Wunsch |
Garner
Town Council
Kathy Behringer |
Gra Singleton |
Rachel Tourdot |
Holly Springs
Mayor
Christine Kelly | Questionnaire
Sean Mayefskie |
Town Council
Kristi Bennet |
Dan Berry | Questionnaire
Jahmar Cobb |
Timothy Forrest | Questionnaire
Carrie Randa | Questionnaire
Knightdale
Mayor
Charles Bullock |
Jessica Day |
Town Council
Steve Evans |
Latatious Morris |
Chris Parker |
Mark Swan |
Morrisville
Mayor
TJ Cawley | Questionnaire
Liz Johnson |
Town Council
Steve Rao | Questionnaire
James Semmens |
Donna Fender |
Patty Wei-Pei Cheng | Questionnaire
Vicki Scroggins-Johnson | Questionnaire
Rolesville
Board of Commissioners
Dan Alston |
Steven Dieckhaus |
April Sneed |
Paul Vilga |
Joseph Wilson |
Wake Forest Mayor
Mayor
Vivian Jones |
Bridget Wall-Lenon |
Board of Commissioners
Patrick Griffin |
Michael Molinaro |
R. Keith Shackleford | Questionnaire
Liz Simpers |
Nick Sliwinski |
Wendell
Board of Commissioners
Deans Eatman |
Michael Firstbrook |
Braxton Honeycutt |
Jason Joyner |
Jon Lutz |
Josh Sledge |
Allison Yeargin |
Zebulon
Mayor
Patrick Bolger |
Glenn York |
Board of Commissioners
Beverly Wall Clark |
Quentin Miles |
Annie Jean Moore |
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