The mayor presides over the council and casts a vote on issues only in the event of a tie.

A separately elected mayor presides over the governing body but casts no vote on matters before the council except in the event of a tie.

Cleveland was elected mayor with 15, 120 votes, as against 11, 528 for Milton C. Beebe, his opponent.

In 1836, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York under the anti-immigrant Nativist Party's banner, receiving only 1496 votes.

Returning home, he ran for mayor in 1886, finishing third with 60, 000 votes.

First elected mayor in 1955 with a modest victory margin of 125, 179 votes, Daley was re-elected to that office six times and had been mayor for 21 years at the time of his death.

He served as mayor of Oregon City in 1851, winning 44 of 66 votes.

Current mayor is Alessandro Andreatta, of the Partito Democratico, elected with 64. 42 % of the votes.

Butler's World Congress in 2002 drew fewer than 100 people, and when he ran for mayor, he lost, garnering only 50 votes against over 2, 100 votes.

Huang Chun-ying lost to Chen Chu by a margin of 0. 14 percent, 378, 303 votes to 379, 417 votes, making Chen Chu the first female mayor of a special municipality in the Republic of China. In 2007, the ROC applies for membership in the United Nations under the name " Taiwan ", and is rejected by the General Assembly.

The reporter realizes this bewildered, harmless little man was railroaded — just to help the crooked mayor and sheriff pick up enough black votes to win re-election.

The candidate who receives the most votes is designated the vice mayor for the following two years.

The winning at-large candidate who receives the greatest number of votes for mayor becomes the mayor ( at-large councilor candidates must ask to be removed from the ballot for mayor if they do not want to be listed on the mayoral ballot ).

He had 84 votes to 74 ballots cast for incumbent mayor Brenda F. Gazaway.

On Tuesday, November 7, 1995, Shirley A. Wadding ( D ) became Lake Station's first female mayor, defeating Republican opponent James Vanderlin ( R ) by approximately 320 votes.

The Clyde A. Stanley ( 1910-1959 ), was the first mayor of the village, having defeated James William " Tinker " Volentine ( 1915 – 1982 ), 69-54 votes.

In late 2009, Judith Flanagan Kennedy became mayor by a margin of only 27 votes ( out of a vote total of over 16, 000 ), beating out two-term incumbent mayor Edward J. Clancy.

The mayor and six council members comprise the city council, or legislative body, with the mayor being elected every two years and council members elected to two-or four-year staggered terms depending upon the number of votes cast for each candidate.

The mayor presides over the meetings, and votes only in the event of a tie.

The city is governed by a " strong " mayor system who appoints two council members and / or city residents to serve at the mayor's pleasure on the board of public works and safety.

After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley announced he would step down at the end of his final term in 2011.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

Jean-Sylvain Bailly, president of the Assembly at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the commune.

The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

In this franchise, the player is a mayor that may, at their leisure, take a city from a single village to a successful metropolis, laying down zones, taking care of the public services and stimulating the city's economy.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

On February 5, 2008, the city, under mayor Michael Bloomberg, threw a ticker tape parade in honor of the Giants ' Super Bowl XLII victory at the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan.

Directly in the centre of one of them I particularly noticed a very large dog, sitting in front of the door or entrance to his burrow, and by his own actions and those of his neighbors it really seemed as though he was the president, mayor, or chief — at all events, he was the ' big dog ' of the place.

* the mayor, appointed by the President ( who can remove him at any moment ) upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister, alongside a group of four deputy mayors heading eleven ministries ( of which financial, transport, urban development etc.

* June 15 – A bull breaks through barriers at a bullfight in Madrid, killing two people ( including the mayor of Torrejón de Ardoz ) and injuring a number of other spectators.

Seated at a dinner reception in Chicago with columnist Abra Anderson and mayor Jane Byrne, Margaret told them that the royal family had been moved by the many letters of condolence from Ireland.

During his tenure as mayor, Washington lived at the Hampton House apartments in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.

This collar, however, has its origin in no royal favour, Sir John Alen, thrice a lord mayor, having bequeathed it to the then lord mayor and his successors " to use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festivall dayes.

He was visited by Leibniz, William III of Orange and his wife, the Amsterdam burgemeester ( the mayor ) Johan Huydecoper, the latter very interested in collecting and growing plants for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and all gazed at the tiny creatures.

Among numerous finds of prehistoric bones found at Unicorn Cave in Germany's Harz Mountains, some were selected and reconstructed by the mayor of Magdeburg, Otto Von Guericke, as a unicorn in 1663 ( illustration, right ).

The sitting mayor at the time, Agatino Licandro, made a remarkable confession reporting " suitcases coming into city hall stuffed with money but going out empty ".

Corfu's mayor at the time, Kollas, was a known collaborator and various anti-semitic laws were passed by the Nazis that now formed the occupation government of the island.

While Jacques Peirotes, at this time deputy at the Landrat Elsass-Lothringen and just elected mayor of Strasbourg, proclaimed the forfeiture of the German Empire and the advent of the French Republic, a self-proclaimed government of Alsace-Lorraine declared independence as the " Republic of Alsace-Lorraine ".

Borough status entitles the council chairman to bear the title of mayor.

Attlee returned to local politics in the immediate post-war period, becoming mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney in 1919, one of London's poorest inner-city boroughs.

Following the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, the town elected a Borough Council, comprising a mayor, aldermen and councillors.

The Borough Council executive comprises twelve elected Councillors, headed by the mayor.

There is a Borough-wide government based in Soldotna, consisting of a strong mayor and an assembly of representatives from all areas of the Borough.

A statue of Clement Attlee, mayor of Metropolitan Borough of Stepney | Stepney ( 1919 ) and MP for Limehouse ( UK Parliament constituency ) | Limehouse stands outside the former Limehouse Library.

The Lambeth Borough website states this underlines the apolitical nature of the mayor ’ s role and enables them to represent all the citizens of the borough however some have criticised this arrangement as the council ignoring the political mandate of the voters.

, the mayor of the Borough of Park Ridge is Terence Maguire ( D, term ends December 31, 2015 ).

Isaac D. Bogert served as the first mayor of the Borough.

The governing body consists of a mayor directly elected by the voters and a six-member Borough Council.

, the mayor of Pemberton Borough is Mayor William Kochersperger, whose term of office ends on December 31, 2015.

, the mayor of Riverton Borough is William C. Brown, Jr. Members of the Riverton Borough Council are Council President Suzanne Cairns Wells,

The Borough Council is elected to serve four-year terms on a staggered basis, with three seats coming up for election and then the mayor and the fourth seat two years later.

On Election Day, November 7, 2006, voters elected a mayor to a fill the last 14 months of a four-year term of office, and filled two three-year terms and a one-year unexpired seat on the Borough Council.

In the 2011 General Election, Democrat Eric Steeber was elected to a four-year term as mayor, while his running mates Randy Farkas and Joseph Pietanza won three-year terms on the Borough Council.

Allentown is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government by a mayor and a six-member Borough Council.

Englishtown operates under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government, and is governed by a mayor and a six-member borough council.

, the mayor of the Borough of Englishtown is Thomas Reynolds.

Fair Haven is governed by the Borough form of government, with a mayor and a six-member Borough Council.

Freehold operates under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government, and is governed by a mayor and a six-member borough council.

Michael Wilson had been elected in 1985 and served in office until January 2012, making him the longest-serving mayor in Freehold Borough history with 26 years of service.