Democrats in Onondaga County designated candidates Wednesday for the 2023 election cycle.
At the top of the ticket, Bill Kinne, a county legislator, will challenge Ryan McMahon in the race for county executive.
Max Ruckdeschel, who is serving in his first year as the party’s chair, said expects Democrats to designate additional candidates, on top of the nine legislature candidates so far picked.
The party hopes to add candidates in the Onondaga County Legislature’s 2nd and 4th districts specifically, Ruckdeschel said.
Democrats are running just two incumbents in county legislature races: Legislature Minority Leader Chris Ryan and 16th District Legislator Charles Garland.
Ruckdeschel said he had not yet been notified by any candidates planning primary challenges to designated candidates.
See all the candidates the party designated:
Countywide
- County Executive: Bill Kinne
- County Comptroller: Marty Masterpole
County Legislature
- District 1: No candidate
- District 2: No candidate
- District 3: No candidate
- District 4: No candidate
- District 5: Duane Maine
- District 6: Blake Carter
- District 7: Dan Romeo
- District 8: Chris Ryan
- District 9: Palmer Harvey
- District 10: Carrie Ingersoll-Wood
- District 11: No candidate
- District 12: No candidate
- District 13: No candidate
- District 14: No candidate
- District 15: Tim Rudd
- District 16: Charles Garland
- District 17: Nodesia Hernandez
Citywide
- City Court Judge: Mary Anne Doherty
- City Auditor: Nader Maroun
Syracuse Common Council
- At-Large: Chol Majok
- At-Large: Rita Paniagua
- District 1: Sean Reed
- District 2: Pat Hogan
- District 3: Corey Williams
- District 4: Bruce Conner
- District 5: Jimmy Monto
Syracuse Board of Education
- Tamica Barnett
- Mary Habib
- Gwendolyn Raeford
- Ranette Releford
Town of Lysander
- Supervisor: Kevin Rode
- Councilor: William Stowell
- Justice: Kenneth Christopher
Town of Manlius
- Supervisor: John Deer
- Councilor: Alissa Italiano
- Councilor: Michael Nesci
- Councilor: Heather Waters
- Justice: John Boyd II
Town of Salina
- 2nd ward councilor: Leesa Paul
Town of Spafford
- Councilor: Kimberly Brayman
- Councilor: James O’Connell
- Highway Superintendent: Jody Fisher
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