NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Voters will head to the polls this year for municipal elections, with Election Day scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 7.
READ MORE: NHC Board of Elections members vote on additional early-voting spot on Pleasure Island
Filing opened in the tri-county region, Friday, July 7, and closed at noon two weeks later, July 21. Across the tri-county area, there are races for mayor, council members, aldermen, and commissioners from coastal areas — Topsail to Kure Beach to Calabash — to inland towns, such as Wilmington and Leland.
This election year will include new rules being implemented, such as the voter ID law. Acceptable forms of ID under the new law include an unexpired North Carolina driver’s license, U.S. passport, state voter identification card and a local or state government-issued ID card.
Free IDs can be procured at the DMV and at county boards of election.
Early voting will open in New Hanover County from Oct. 19 through Nov. 4, at Board of Elections main office at Northeast Regional Library on Military Cutoff Road. The location will be closed Oct. 21 and 22 but will reopen Oct. 23. The other three sites — Cape Fear Community College, New Hanover County Senior Resource Center on College Road, and the Carolina Beach Town Hall — will open Oct. 28 to Nov. 4.
Brunswick opens early voting polls on Oct. 19 through Nov. 4 (closed Oct. 21-22 and Oct. 28-29) at Brunswick County Cooperative Extension, 25 Referendum Drive, Building N in Bolivia.
Pender County is also doing early voting but the board of election has not yet voted on the schedule; it will do so at its Aug. 22 meeting.
Below is the full list of who filed in the tri-county region. Port City Daily will be sending candidate questionnaires in coming months and publishing each individually for some elections, as well as folding it into a voter guide to run ahead of Election Day.
New Hanover County
Carolina Beach Mayor
Michelle R. Alberda
Lynn Barbee (incumbent)
Tyler McDowell
Chad Kirk
Carolina Beach Council
Jay Healy (incumbent)
Debra LeCompte (incumbent)
Danny McLaughlin
Wilmington Mayor
Bill Saffo (incumbent)
Wilmington City Council
Neil Anderson (incumbent)
Salette Andrews
Kathryn Bruner
Marlowe Foster
David Joyner
John D. Lennon
Kevin Spears (incumbent)
Kure Beach Mayor
Allen Oliver
Kure Beach Commissioners
David Heglar (incumbent)
Connie Mearkle
Tracy Mitchell
Dennis Panicali (incumbent)
Wrightsville Beach Mayor
Darryl Mills (incumbent)
Henry Temple
Wrightsville Beach Alderman
Jeff D. DeGroote
Zeke Partin
Brunswick County
Bald Head Island Council
Jerry Maggio (incumbent)
Virginia (Ginnie) White (incumbent)
Scott Thomas
Belville Mayor
Mike Allen (incumbent)
Belville Commissioner
Charles Bost (incumbent)
Joe Cranford
Morgan R. Mehler (incumbent)
Boiling Springs Lake Mayor
Jeff Winecoff (incumbent)
Boiling Springs Lakes Commissioner
Todd Ausborn
Teagan Perry Hall (incumbent)
Justin Lovin
Bolivia Mayor
Ella Jane Marston (incumbent)
Bolivia Alderman
Nancy B. Cook (incumbent)
Kaitlyn Jackson (incumbent)
Dewey Smith (incumbent)
Melissa Kay Walters (incumbent)
Brunswick Regional Water and Sewer H2GO Commissioner
Steve Hosmer (incumbent)
Barry Laub (incumbent)
Joanne Levitan
Brunswick Dosher Hospital Board of Trustees
Charles A. Drew
Angela L. Wadsworth
Calabash Mayor
Donna Prince Long (incumbent)
Calabash Commissioner
Forrest King (incumbent)
Michael Herring
Carolina Shores Mayor (unexpired)
Dan Conte
Carolina Shores Commissioner
Walter B. Goodenough
Beverly Mayhew (incumbent)
Harry (Bud) McClard
Marlene Vandergrift (incumbent)
Caswell Beach Mayor
George Kassler
Caswell Beach Commissioner
Melissa Alford
Martyn Clarke (incumbent)
Kenneth J. Hudson (incumbent)
Holden Beach Mayor
Mike Felmly
J. Alan Holden (incumbent)
Holden Beach Commissioner
Gerald Arnold (incumbent)
Page Dyer (incumbent)
Brian Murdock (incumbent)
Tom Myers
Maria Surprise
Tracey Thomas
Jim Bauer
Holden Beach Commissioner (unexpired)
Richard A. McInturf
Rick Paarfus
Sylvia H. Pate
Leland Mayor
Brenda Bozeman (incumbent)
Leland Council
Bob Campbell (incumbent)
Veronica A. Carter (incumbent)
Navassa Commissioner District 1
Jerry Merrick (incumbent)
Navassa Commissioner District 2
LaTonyia Lowe
Navassa Commissioner District 3
William (Buddy) Ballard
Northwest Mayor
James A. Knox (incumbent)
Northwest Councilman
Sylvester D. Ballard (incumbent)
Michael Troy (incumbent)
Oak Island Council
Terri L. Cartner
Bob Ciullo
Bill Craft Jr. (incumbent)
Niki Cutler
Mark J. Dolak, Jr.
Durral Gilbert
Randy Moffitt
Ocean Isle Beach Mayor
Debbie S. Smith (incumbent)
Robert Bullard
Ocean Isle Beach Commissioner
David Green (incumbent)
Mark Holland
Wendy L. Hughes
Stephen S. Turner
Bob Williams
Mike Wade
Sandy Creek Mayor
Mel Miller
Sandy Creek Council
Nate Youngs (incumbent)
Shallotte Aldermen
Melodie Bryant
Karmen Custer
Carson Durham (incumbent)
Larry Harrelson (incumbent)
Edward Springer
Bobby Williamson (incumbent)
Southeast Brunswick Sanitary District Commissioner
Peter Goewey
William (Bill) Hurcomb
Gordon Corlew
Southport Mayor
Rich Alt
Mike Barbee
Joe Pat Hatem (incumbent)
Southport Alderman Ward 1
Thomas Lombardi (incumbent)
Marc Spencer
Southport Alderman Ward 2
John Allen (incumbent)
Bonnie L. Bray
Lowe Davis (incumbent)
Rebecca Azzato Kelley
St. James Council
Lynn Dutney (incumbent)
Jean R. Toner (incumbent)
Sunset Beach Mayor
Shannon (Hotdog) Phillips (incumbent)
Sunset Beach Council
Pete Larkin
Mike Pozdol
Daniel Shaw
Varnamtown Mayor
Gary Ross Galloway, Jr.
Varnamtown Aldermen
Kristie Coble
Sylvia Galloway (incumbent)
Randy Stevenson
Pender County
Atkinson Mayor
Elton Wendell Newkirk Sr. (incumbent)
Jason Spivey
Atkinson Commissioner
Bryan Stewart (incumbent)
Burgaw Commissioner
Vernon Harrell (incumbent)
John Johnson
William E. George III (incumbent)
Michael Pearsall
William G. Rivenbark
Rochelle Whiteside
St. Helena Mayor
Robert M. Barnhill (incumbent)
St. Helena Councilman
Carey Childress
Gerald Velie
William “Cowboy” Hunter (incumbent)
Surf City Mayor
Teresa Batts (incumbent)
Marc Caldwell
Surf City Council
Heather Allen
William J. (Buddy) Fowler (incumbent)
Alicia Hawley
Donald Ray Helms (incumbent)
Cheryl Crane Hunter
John Koloski (incumbent)
Trudy Solomon
Topsail Beach Mayor
Steve Smith (incumbent)
Topsail Beach Commissioner
Joe Bell (incumbent)
John Gunter (incumbent)
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