Three of the southside Hampton Roads cities will have local elections on their ballots this November. The candidate list, as of today, is below. Note that there are special elections in each city – the filing deadline for candidates in those contests is August 15. I will update this list once the final field is set. UPDATED 09/18/14
* – incumbent
| Portsmouth City Council | Portsmouth School Board | |||
| (3 seats available) | (3 seats available) | |||
| Paige Cherry* | Donna Sayegh | Charles Bodnar | Claude Parent* | |
| Nathan Clark | Gary Waters | Lynn Briley | Cardell Patillo | |
| Michael Green | Mark Whitaker | Kintrell Devin | Linda Ridenour* | |
| William Moody* | Joseph Fleming* | Ingrid Whitaker | ||
| Laura MacIntyre | ||||
| Special election for 4th seat | ||||
| Laural Armstrong | Sarah Hinds | |||
| Suffolk City Council | Suffolk School Board | |||
| Cypress Borough | Holy Neck Borough | Cypress Borough | Holy Neck Borough | |
| Leroy Bennett | Jeffrey Gardy* | Lorraine Skeeter* | Enoch Copeland* | |
| Charles Brown* | Timothy Johnson | |||
| Clinton Jenkins | ||||
| Suffolk Borough | Chuckatuck Borough | Suffolk Borough | Chuckatuck Borough | |
| Donald Goldberg | Michael Duman* | Michael Debranski* | Linda Bouchard* | |
| Kerry Holmes | Thelma Hinton | Dorothy Gamble | ||
| Charles Parr* | ||||
| Sleepy Hole (special) | ||||
| Charles Leavell | James Perkinson | |||
| David Mitnick | ||||
| Virginia Beach City Council | ||||
| At Large (2 seats available) | Bayside | Princess Anne | Rose Hall (special) | |
| Murray Davenport | Louis Jones* | Pieri Burton | Beatrice Browder | |
| George Furman | Barbara Henley* | James Cabness | ||
| Brad Martin* | Beach | Stephen Johnston | ||
| John Moss* | John Uhrin* | Lynnhaven | Shannon Kane* | |
| James Wood* | ||||
| Virginia Beach School Board | ||||
| At Large (2 seats available) | Bayside | Princess Anne | Lynnhaven | |
| Dorothy Holtz* | Clenise Platt | William Brunke* | Michael Kelly | |
| Alvenia Leboeuf | Carolyn Weems* | Kimberly Melnyk | Carolyn Rye | |
| Ashley McLeod | Frances Thompson | Gregory Strangways | ||
| Robert Melatti* | Beach | |||
| Gregg O’Neil | Sharon Felton | |||
| Osmay Torres | Samuel Reid* | |||
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
since the Knack’s like to kick incumbents out, I hope your followers will support our brother-in-law, Don Goldberg, in the Suffolk borough.