A slew of last-minute candidate filings that occurred over last week and early this week — the deadline to file was Tuesday, June 4 — have led numerous municipalities and one county-wide elected position to become contested.
Erlanger’s city council and the city commission for Covington were already contested, but now the county’s other county seat, Independence, and several other cities have also become contested. This brings the total number of candidates running in contested races alone to 124.
A list of the all of the contested races in Kenton County are listed below:
- Soil and water conservation district supervisor (5 candidates, vote for 4)
- Bromley City Council (10 candidates, vote for 6)
- Covington City Commission (8 candidates, vote for 4)
- Crescent Springs City Council (9 candidates, vote for 6)
- Edgewood City Council (9 candidates, vote for 7)
- Elsmere City Council (7 candidates, vote for 6)
- Erlanger City Council (14 candidates, vote for 9)
- Fort Wright City Council (7 candidates, vote for 6)
- Independence City Council (9 candidates, vote for 6)
- Lakeside Park City Council (7 candidates, vote for 6)
- Ludlow City Council (8 candidates, vote for 6)
- Park Hills City Council (12 candidates, vote for 6)
- Taylor Mill City Commission (6 candidates, vote for 4)
- Mayor of Walton (2 candidates, vote for 1)
- Beechwood Independent Public Schools Board of Education (5 candidates, vote for 2)
- Covington Independent Public Schools Board of Education (6 candidates, vote for 3)