MI: Meet the 33 candidates running for 11 Ottawa County commission seats

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI — Now that the filing deadline has officially passed, Ottawa County voters have a complete view of who is running in the election for the county’s Board of Commissioners seats.

Among the 11 districts, 33 candidates are running for commission seats. Each of the districts has at least one Democrat and one Republican candidate, meaning winners won’t be determined until the November election.

However, that doesn’t mean the August primary election will be uneventful. Eight of the 11 county districts have multiple Republican candidates in the running, so the August primary will narrow down those Republican candidates to one for each district. This is a stark change from the last Board of Commissioners election in 2022, in which seven districts had zero Democratic candidates, meaning whichever Republican won in the primary won the seat outright.

This is the most candidates to run for election for the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners in at least two decades. In the most recent election in 2022, 26 candidates filed to run. Before that, commission candidates hovered much lower, with 14 candidates filing in 2020, 16 in 2018, 14 in 2016 and 17 in 2014.



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