A healthy democracy depends on citizens exercising their right to vote at every election. This includes elections for local office holders as well as state and federal office holders.
While we think of the “general election” in November of even years as “the election,” actually there are elections in most months of the year — December, March, April, May, June and November — as well as in both even and odd years.
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When Can You Vote
The listing below gives the dates for the largest jurisdictions. Your village will likely have its own calendar (find out more by going to its website).
When Can You vote?
April — voting for Library Budgets and Library Trustees— for Port Washington & Manhasset & some neighboring libraries.
May — votes for school budgets & candidates for Boards of Education — for Port Washington & Manhasset, North Shore, Carle Place, Great Neck — 3rd Tuesday in May
June — Primary elections to select Democratic and Republican candidates for November ballot
October & November —General Election Day on Tuesday after first Monday in November — Early voting begins 11 days earlier.
In years that can be divided by 4:
President/Vice President
US Senate (2 Senators in 6-yr terms)
In years divisible by 2:
US Congress
NY Senate
NY Assembly
NY Governor, Ltn Governor, Comptroller, Attorney General (4-year terms)
In odd years
Nassau County Supervisor, District Attorney, Comptroller, Clerk (4-year terms)
Nassau County Legislators (2-year terms)
Town of N. Hempstead Supervisor & Council Members (2-year terms)
City of Glen Cove Mayor and City Council Members (2-year terms)
December —Special District forums for Port Washington & Manhasset: 2nd Tuesday in December: Garbage, Parks, Police, Sewer, Water
Who certifies the candidates who run for election?
Candidates appearing on ballots must be certified by the Clerk of that election board.
Each set of offices has its own election clerk.
For Port Washington and Manhasset, these are the relevant offices and clerks:
- Mineola Board of Elections
- US Congresss — District 3
- NYS Senate — District 7
- NYS Assembly — Districts 13 & 16
- Nassau County Legislature — Districts 10 & 11
- Town of North Hempstead Council —Districts 4 & 6
- Glen Cove Mayor
- Glen Cove City Council
- Special District Election Clerks in Manhasset & Port Washington
- Boards of Education
- Public Libraries
- Special Commissions: Fire, Garbage, Parks, Police, Sewer, & Water
- Mineola Board of Elections
PWM organizes forums, when the election is contested and at least two candidates for each seat agree to League procedures. Find out more on our Forums page.
Who represents you? They Represent You.
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Whether you have a few hours during election season (or much more), whether you know voter engagement is something you care about (or you want to try it out), or whether whether you just want to be part of a team focused on building community in our PWM area and “Making Democracy Work” — we’d love to hear from you.
You can learn about offices by viewing view past forums for that office?
Playlists for candidate forums since 2020 are available.
LWVofPWM forums for upcoming elections are typically listed on our Website Homepage (LWVofPWM.org) and on our Calendar — pages that are regularly updated.