There are 3 article(s) tagged county partisan primaries:

• September 2023

  • Shelby County Republican Party says no to school board primaries in close vote

    The decision came during a secret-ballot vote of the local Republican Party’s executive committee Thursday, Sept. 7, in Germantown. 

    By Bill Dries September 08, 2023

• May 2022

  • Political Roundup: The primary issue. Do we still need them?

    A call to end county primary elections draws fire during the “On The Record” podcast as Democrats tout their countywide slate in Germantown and Republican mayoral nominee Worth Morgan opens his campaign headquarters in East Memphis.

    By Bill Dries May 31, 2022

• April 2022

  • The election backstory: Primaries

    Here is the backstory of how county primaries came to be in the early 1990s, called for by Republicans several years after Democrats splintered over a move in their ranks to take local elections partisan.

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2022