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Troy Area

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy.

 

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2024 Elections: February 27th Presidential Primary - completed
August 6th State and Federal Primary and one Troy city council seat (special election for appointed position). 
November 5th State and Federal General Election and Troy School Board Election and renewal millage for the Troy schools.
 

Visit VOTE411.org for voter information on the candidates.

 

The Troy league and Oakland Area league have filmed the following candidate forums and they are available for viewing:

Thank You to all of you who sent us the many thoughtful questions.

June 25th  House seat for district 57: (D) Aisha Farooqi (unavialble due to illness), Tyler Fox, Douglas Waggener and (R) Thomas E. Kuhn (unavailble)

https://www.youtube.com/live/_tZQxhjXaoI?si=6MarTdfsC07WgdVk for State Rep Dist 57 move forward 5 minutes for forum

June 27th  Troy city council: Hirak Chanda and Ed Ross
 
https://www.youtube.com/live/DJI2dtEWzpI?si=yDp_NbN6aneBZBh7 move forward two minutes for the forum
Paper voter guides available at the library and city clerks office.
 
House District 56 and County Commissioner District 2 are uncontested in the August Primary.
 
Oakland Area County Commissioner forums

June 20, 2024 -- County Commission District 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydMj4De71so     for video on demand or Look on the LWVOA website

June 26, 2024 -- State Representative 8th District and County Commission 3rd District

Late date change from July 10th

Watch on TV - Comcast & WOW channel 18 in these cities live or rebroadcaste:
Auburn Hills, Berkley, Clawson, Ferndale, Oakland Township, Pleasant Ridge, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Royal Oak & Troy

Watch on CMNtv LiveStream:
http://www.cmntv.org/watch/

Playback times of the June 25 LWV Candidate Forum for State Representative District 57 - 

Mondays - 12:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Wednesdays - 7:00 p.m.
Fridays - 1:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
On CMNtv
 
June 26th Cancelled filmed by LWV Oakland Area - County commissioners District 1 and 3:  (D) Charlie Gandy-Thompson, Dave Woodward (1st), Ann Erickson Gault, Roslyn Grafstein (3rd) and (R) Regina Wilk (1st), Douglas K. MacLean (3rd)
  
 

We reserved September 26th for the candidate forums for the general election for State House District 56 and 57 and County Commissioners District 1,2 and 3 back-to-back that night.  In addition, we will have a school board candidates forum on September 25th at the school district administration center for the school board candidates for the November election.

Please email us any questions you may have for the candidates: leagueofwomenvoterstroyarea [at] gmail.com

Our special thanks to both CMN and the Troy school district administration for set up and filming our candidate forums. 

Those dates were chosen to allow absentee ballots voters to see the candidates before they vote.

All forums will begin at 7pm and last an hour.

CMN studio is located 1230 Souter Blvd Troy Michigan 48083 South of 15 mile east of Rochester

Troy School Service Building 4420 Livernois is located east of Livernois and east of the Administration building and north of 17 mile road.

 
Our apploigies to those who could not find this website before the November 2023 election.  A problem with our URL forwarding (our provider updated software) and vacation by our web master left us uncovered.  Our underlying website is www.my.lwv.org/michigan/troy-area
 

Look below for an updated "They represent You" .

The They Represent You brochure, with listings of all of your government representatives from city council to President, is available at the library, city hall and as a pdf. 
 

REMEMBER: DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT! YOU CAN'T VOTE IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED. SEE THE CITY CLERK at 248.524.3316 for more information.

Troy Representatives:US Congressional -- District 11
State Senate -- District 9 (all of Troy [ex pct 30 in State Senate District 3] 
State Representative -- Districts 56 and 57
Oakland County Commissioners-Districts 1,2 and 3

 

Special thanks to Troy Community Foundation for their generous donations. 

 

 

For information on the candidates for any election look online at VOTE411.org https://www.vote411.org/ or on this web site.

To view the latest candidate forums for any election go to http://www.cmntv.org/watch/cmntv-video-on-demand/ and tab down or search for CMNtv Politics 202x or lwv

More information can be found at  https://www.oakgov.com/clerkrod/elections/Documents/11032020%20Proposal%...

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