All eyes might be shifting to the Senate and presidential races in 2024, but there are a host of other contests taking place up and down the ballot in 2023’s off-year elections.
In Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) is slated to defend the governor’s mansion in the red state, while Democrats will seek to keep the governor’s mansion blue in deep-red Louisiana as incumbent Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) is term-limited.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin, the ideological balance of power on the state Supreme Court will be determined in a race for a seat on the court. And out east in Virginia and New Jersey, Republicans and Democrats are set to race for control for the state legislatures.
Here are five races to watch in 2023:
