2024 Dane County Executive special election

2024 Dane County Executive special election

November 5, 2024
 
Nominee Melissa Agard Dana Pellebon
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 168,168 104,487
Percentage 60.91% 37.84%

County Executive before election

Jamie Kuhn (interim)
Nonpartisan

Elected County Executive

Melissa Agard
Nonpartisan

The 2024 Dane County Executive special election took place on November 5, 2024, following a primary election on August 13, 2024. County Executive Joe Parisi, who won re-election to a four year term in 2021, announced that he would resign from office. Following Parisi's resignation, former County Supervisor Jamie Kuhn was appointed as interim County Executive, and served until the special election.

Former State Senator Melissa Agard emerged as the frontrunner, and won 57 percent of the vote in the primary election. County Supervisor Dana Pellebon defeated Madison City Alder Regina Vidaver for second place, winning 17 percent of the vote to Vidaver's 15 percent, and advanced to the general election against Agard. In the general election, Agard defeated Pellebon in a landslide, winning 61 percent of the vote to Pellebon's 38 percent.