Municipal Government

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    Municipal elections

    Cities and counties with elections in 2017

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    Partisanship in municipal elections

    What is at stake in the 2017 election?

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    Top cities

    Largest cities by population in the United States

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    Preemption conflicts between state and local governments

    When states and municipalities come into conflict, what happens?

Top 100 Cities By Population

Highlights

Municipal Government fast facts

Ballotpedia covers the 100 largest cities and 17 of the largest counties in the country. Here are some fast facts about those municipalities.
  • 61,325,698 (19.9 percent) of the 308,745,538 people in the United States lived in the country's 100 largest cities as of the 2010 census.
  • California (17), Texas (13) and Florida (6) are the three states with the most cities in the top 100. Sixteen states have no city in the top 100.
  • 46,710,856 (15.1 percent) of the 308,745,538 people in the United States lived in the 17 counties covered by Ballotpedia as of the 2010 census.

Candidate survey

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