Six of the Shelby County Commission races were either decided or their general election match-ups were already set prior to Election Day.

Follow The Daily Memphian’s election coverage for regular updates throughout the evening.

Polls are open across Shelby County from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 5. Here’s some helpful info if you are voting today.

A special session of the Tennessee General Assembly starts today — the same day as the Shelby County primary. 

Here’s what is at stake and what to look for in the vote totals Tuesday evening.

All three Arlington school board incumbents on Tuesday’s ballot are unopposed in the Republican Primary. With no Democrats running for the offices, the trio are set for another term.

My mother, along with a handful of other Black Panola County residents, registered to vote during one of the most precarious times for Black people in the South. It came just six days after the bodies of three Civil Rights workers were discovered in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Here’s everything you need to know about voting in Shelby County on the May 5 election day and a look at what is at stake in this election along with some trends in voter turnout.

The political roundup connects the dots on the call to redraw U.S. House district lines ahead of August Congressional primaries to the broader call by Republicans for more state control of the city.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has called a special session of the Tennessee Legislature to consider redrawing the lines of the state’s nine Congressional districts in a bid to turn the state’s largest and only blue district red in this year’s midterm elections.

Nearly 33,000 people are registered to vote in Germantown, but only 3,513 have voted, according to the Shelby County Election Commission.

More than 57,000 early votes were cast in the 14-day period ahead in the Shelby County primaries. Here’s how that compares to past turnout in the same election cycle and what it could say about Election Day.

Now that early voting is complete, campaigners have one more shot on Tuesday’s Election Day to sway Germantown residents on whether the mayor should transition to a full-time job.

The Shelby County primaries are here, with early voting already ongoing, and election day coming fast and furious on Tuesday, May 5.

Thursday is the final day to vote early in the Shelby County primaries ahead of the May 5 Election Day.

The calls to eliminate Tennessee’s only Democratic-held U.S. House seat follow Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changes the Civil Rights Act standards for drawing legislative districts.

Who will the new board members be? And is former superintendent Marie Feagins expected to get her job back? 

With Election Day around the corner, it was a busy week in Shelby County. Mayoral contenders hit forums across the area to talk with voters one-on-one. Meanwhile, early voting turnout is higher than the pivotal 2018 County primaries.

Marie Feagins commented on the Memphis-Shelby County Schools takeover law at a forum for Democratic contenders for Shelby County mayor among suburban chamber of commerce leaders in East Memphis.

The status of inactive voters comes up regularly during an election year, but inactive status does not mean the voter is ineligible to vote.

Here is an overview of seven races on the May ballot that aren’t getting as much attention as the races for county mayor, Shelby County Board of Commissioners and county clerk.

Early voter turnout through the first four days of the period that ends April 30 is higher than it was at the same point in 2018.

Here is everything you need to know about the 13 Shelby County Commission races on the May 5 ballot.

A former Memphis teacher and longtime local lawyer are vying for the District 8 school board seat in the May 5 Democratic primary. The winner will face a third candidate, a school librarian running as an independent, in August’s general election.

Five candidates are vying for the District 6 school board seat in the May 5 Democratic primary. The winner will face a sixth candidate, a longtime local pastor running as an independent, in August’s general election.