ALEXANDRIA, VA — Alexandria residents go to the polls Tuesday to select a new city council member to replace Kirk McPike, who resigned in January to run for the Virginia House of Delegates.
The candidates to replace McPike, a Democrat, are Democrat Sandy Marks and Independents Frank Fannon and Alison Virginia O’Connell.
Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. You can confirm the location and your registration by visiting vote.elections.virginia.gov or calling the Office of Voter Registration & Elections at (703) 746-4050. You can also view the City's current precinct map.
Patch will report the unofficial totals from the Virginia Department of Election after polls close. Check back here for the latest results.
The Candidates
Marks’ emphasizes public education, including changing the school funding formula and improving school infrastructure; affordable housing, for which she advocates permitting reforms and tax incentives to generate housing; equity and access, through addressing causes of gun violence and expanding park space; and defending democracy through protecting reproductive rights, protecting vulnerable communities in the city and refusing campaign contributions from Dominion.
Fannon, who served on the city council in the past, would be the first non-Democrat elected since his last election in 2009, he pointed out in an interview with the Alexandria Times. His campaign focuses on neighborhood protection, localizing and involving Alexandria communities in governance, and demanding transparency in spending.
O’Connell’s campaign focuses on what she describes as defending the city against the agenda of the Donald Trump White House. This includes the arena of housing, where she supports creating new affordable housing, supporting legal protections for tenants, and holding landlords responsible for the conditions of their properties. She also supports creating a human rights screening process for all city funds, ending cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and increasing funding for schools.
As of April 9, Fannon’s campaign had raised the most money by far at more than $84,000, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
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