Who on the August ballot has already won?
Arlington Mayor Mike Wissman leads a set of four unopposed candidates in the nonpartisan Arlington elections. The other three are incumbent aldermen Larry Harmon Jr. and Jeff McKee as well as Courtney Barnes, who is without opposition to take the Arlington School Board seat Kay Williams is leaving. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Ten races on the August ballot were decided at the April 12 deadline for candidates to file their qualifying petitions.
In these 10 races, those who filed are unopposed.
Five of the unopposed are incumbent Tennessee legislators who have no opposition in their August primary, no one in the other party’s companion primary and no independent challenger.
Others include Arlington Mayor Mike Wissman.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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