Filing For 2025 Concord City Council And School Board Races Begins Sept. 5

CONCORD, NH — Concord’s city clerk and the clerk for SAU 8 will be accepting candidate filings for mayor, city council, and Zone district school board seats on Sept. 5.

Sixteen seats will be decided on Nov. 4.

For city seats, the filing fee is $5. The filing period will run from Friday, Sept. 5 through Monday, Sept. 15, at the Concord City Clerk’s office at City Hall at 39 Green St. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, with extended hours on Thursday until 6 p.m. On Sept. 15, the clerk’s office will be open until 5 p.m.

City ward positions have a filing fee of $1.

Candidates for city offices can also gather signatures instead of paying the $5 fee. The signature filing petition process will run through Sept. 19. See the city clerk for details.

To run for a city position, voters must be registered voters in the city and live in the Ward from which they are running, if they are a candidate for a Ward seat.

Call the city clerk’s office at 603-225-8500 for more information.

Filing for the three school board seats will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays from Sept. 5 to Sept. 15.

To run for a school board position, a candidate must be a registered voter of SAU 8 and be domiciled in the Zone district.

For more information about school board races, call the SAU 8 clerk at 603-225-0811.

City And School Offices On The Ballot

Seats in 2025 include:

• Mayor: 1 seat, two-year term.
• At-Large City Councilor: 2 seats, four-year term.
• Ward City Councilor: 1 seat per Ward (10 seats), two-year term.
• Zone A (Wards 1, 2, 3, 4): 1 seat, three-year term.
• Zone B (Wards 5, 6, 7): 1 seat, three-year term.
• Zone C (Wards 8, 9, 10): 1 seat, three-year term.

Ward seats also include:

• Ward Moderator: 1 seat per Ward (10 seats), two-year term.
• Ward Clerk: 1 seat per Ward (10 seats), two-year term.
• Supervisor of the Checklist: 1 seat per Ward (10 seats), six-year term.

Patch, Concord TV Team Up Again In 2025

In 2025, Concord NH Patch will team up with Concord TV to host voter forums featuring videos of candidates running in competitive races, as we have done for several cycles now.

Last term, we outdid ourselves, hosting a dizzying 12 forums out of 13 competitive races. For 2025, depending on the number of competitive seats, we may consider consolidating some of these forums into multi-candidate recordings.

Patch will also attempt to bring back the free candidate questionnaires, while Concord TV will offer its promotional video candidate segments as it has in the past.

Concord NH Patch is gathering information from incumbents to determine who is running, who is not, and who is undecided. Patch will have more information about the status of candidates next week.

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