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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 ...
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. He previously served as a member of the Chester City Council from ...
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 ]
Ahead of her election night event at Howard ... Election workers process mail-in ballots for the 2024 General Election at the Chester County, Pa., administrative offices, in West Chester, Pa., on ...
It was at 20% for the 2019 general election when Wichita also had a mayoral race on the ballots. She expected about 30,000 people to vote in person on Tuesday. There was no line at the church ...
Last night’s election yielded large numbers in Marion County, with the Board of Elections reporting that 48% of eligible voters showed up to the polls.
Chester has a mayor-council government system, consisting of a popularly elected city mayor and city council. The terms of the mayor and members are four years. [64] The current mayor of the City of Chester is Stefan Roots, who won the Democratic nomination in May 2021, over incumbent Mayor Thaddeus Kirkland.
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. [6]