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Stefan Roots is an American politician currently serving as the Democratic mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania, since January 3, 2024.He defeated the incumbent Thaddeus Kirkland in the May 2023 Democratic mayoral primary and Anita J. Littleton in the November 2023 general election.
On March 5, 1795, the borough of Chester, which had been governed under the charter granted by William Penn in 1701, was incorporated by the Pennsylvania Assembly. [2] Chester was incorporated as a city on February 4, 1866 [3] with a mayor-council government system, consisting of a popularly elected city mayor and city council. The terms of the ...
In the 2011 Chester Mayoral election, Linder defeated longtime incumbent Republican Mayor Wendell Butler Jr. in a hotly contested race. With his election, Linder became just the second Democrat to hold the office since 1905, and the first since Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard left office in 1995. [ 5 ]
A breakdown of the preliminary voting results for the Cedar City mayoral race
The mayor of Irmo lost his job Tuesday night, while another Midlands mayor avoided the same fate, as voters in Irmo and West Columbia went to the polls on local election night.
Marion City election results are in - here's who is the new mayor. ... Last night’s election yielded large numbers in Marion County, with the Board of Elections reporting that 48% of eligible ...
Thaddeus Kirkland (born January 12, 1955) is an American politician who served as the Democratic Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2024. In May 2023, he lost the Democratic mayoral primary to Stefan Roots. He served as a Democratic member of the 159th district from 1993 to 2016. [1]
In the 2011 Chester Mayoral election, he lost his bid for re-election to Democrat John Linder [5] ending long-time Republican control of the Chester government. There had previously been one Democratic mayor, Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard , since 1905.