A lot of political changes are coming to Portland, Oregon. The open mayoral race in the state’s most populous city features 19 candidates — all vying to lead after years of growing frustration over homeless encampments.

Three Portland-area school districts will ask voters to support property taxes next month to fund teachers or pay for upgrades to school buildings. The Parkrose School District hopes to pass a levy that it says would raise $19.

Iowa, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon and Rhode Island began early voting on Wednesday, leaving just one state to kick off the 2024 election.

Elected to the Senate in 2022 at 26 to represent a district stretching from Cedar Hills to Aloha, Campos, now 28, remains the youngest member of the upper chamber by a country mile. She wasn’t a heavy hitter during the last session. But given her youth and inexperience, perhaps that’s to be expected.

The election is the first time since 2008 that there has not been an incumbent running for the state's top lawyer.

Three candidates — Dennis Linthicum, Nathalie Paravicini and Tobias Read — are running for Secretary of State, a position marred by scandal and turnover in recent years. The position has no incumbent and has been filled by eight different people in the last 10 years.

A former policy analyst for the Oregon Department of Education, Bowman can boast of directing $150 million to early literacy programs, securing matching funds so that every kid in the state has access to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library,

All four congressional candidates touted their experiences and outlined policy positions at a candidate forum hosted by the City Club of Eugene.

Virginia Stapleton, a Democrat, is running against Rep. Kevin Mannix, a Republican, for House District 21. The district includes central Salem and Keizer along with parts of north and east Salem.

In November, Oregon voters will decide on a statewide ranked choice voting measure that could change the way votes are tallied for federal and state offices.

First-time political candidate David Brown, a Salem insurance agent, is challenging incumbent Tom Andersen for House District 19.

The Voters’ Pamphlet is widely distributed, with nearly 2 million mailed to households ahead of elections. Candidates don’t have to appear in the pamphlet, and Trump chose not to, the Oregon Secretary of State said on social media last week.