The League of Women Voters of New Castle is committed to facilitating voter education. As part of our mission, we aim to coordinate nonpartisan candidate forums to introduce voters to the candidates on their ballots and to have candidates answer questions on topics of interest identified in advance by community members. LWVNC issues invitations to candidates of contested races in our area of coverage to participate in a virtual or, where possible, in person candidate forum. Resources permitting, LWVNC will also attempt to arrange candidate forums for contested races in neighboring communities and districts that are not covered by a local league. To ensure that all residents have the ability to have their areas of concern addressed, questions are solicited in advance and compiled by a questions committee to cover as many topics as interest as possible in the time available. To ensure the nonpartisan nature of the forum, the forum is run by a League trained moderator who is not a voter in the race being covered.
For the 2025 fall election season, LWVNC is working to coordinate candidate forums for Westchester County Legislator District 4, Westchester County Legislator District 2, the Town of Pound Ridge Town Supervisor and Town Board Members and the Town of Lewisboro Town Board Members. The details for LWVNC forums that will take place can be found below. For details on other candidate forums throughout Westchester, including a forum for the Westchester County Executive, please visit the LWV Westchester website candidate forum page.
Westchester County Legislator District 4
LWV New Castle is sponsoring a candidate forum for the Westchester County Legislator District 4 race on Wednesday, October 22 at 7 pm. The two candidates, Vedat Gashi and Kevin O'Keefe, will appear in person in the Assembly Room of the Town of New Castle Town Hall and the forum will also be accessible on Zoom in a webinar format. To register to attend the forum in person, please use this link:https://forms.gle/QhWncLAy47Vyxkbj6. To register to attend virtually webinar style on Zoom, please use this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HJtVbwc4RwO-pUwTzITGpA . The forum will also be available to watch on the New Castle Community Media Center YouTube channel beginning on October 23.
All questions must be submitted in advance; there will be no questions from the audience during the event to ensure that all residents have equal access to have their topics of concern addressed. LWVNC seeks community input on topics of interest. The League will review questions submitted by community members and will use the submissions to identify the topics of interest and generate a set of questions covering as many topics as possible in the available time. To submit a question, please use this google form link: https://forms.gle/oR8TpjBTsFmi3ee28 Questions must be submitted by Friday, October 17 at noon.
Pound Ridge Town Supervisor and Town Board Members
LWV New Castle is sponsoring a candidate forum for our neighbors in the Town of Pound Ridge. Both candidates for the Pound Ridge Town Supervisor position, Kevin Hansan and John McCown, and three of the four candidates for the two open Town Board Member positions, Peter Avellino, Diane Briggs and Daniel Paschkes, will participate. The forum will be conducted webinar style on Zoom on Tuesday, September 30 at 7 pm. To register to attend the forum, please use this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tKr4FwdqSYCVFb4jnt_Pgw. The forum will also be available to watch on the New Castle Community Media Center YouTube channel beginning on October 1.
Questions posed during the forum will be drawn from submissions from members of the community. LWVNC will review questions submitted by community members and will use the submissions to identify the topics of interest and generate a set of questions covering as many topics as possible in the available time. To submit a question, please use this google form link:https://forms.gle/9PbUAMGbYZTnuMkv8 Questions must be submitted by Thursday, September 25 at noon.
