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Byline: Julia Burdelski Aug. 30Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has launched a re-election campaign. The first-term mayor launched a new website announcing his bid for another four-year term. 'I'm running for [...]

Mayor Eric Adams is a strong supporter of Israel. One of his primary opponents, Brad Lander, the comptroller, calls himself a ''progressive Zionist.'' The Israel-Hamas war has divided Democrats across [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Jenna Sampson Mayoral candidate Victor Miller, a bespectacled librarian with an AI obsession, stood between an American flag and a Wyoming flag, preaching what he sees as [...]

The leading mayoral candidates are racing to hire influential activists in the city's large Chinese community and looking for every opportunity to reach Chinese-speaking voters. The contenders for San Francisco [...]

Mayor Eric Adams is facing a competitive Democratic primary next June. His challengers are sprinting to raise money. In a luxury apartment in Trump World Tower in Manhattan near the [...]

New York City officials, including the comptroller, Brad Lander, are weighing whether to challenge Eric Adams, potentially creating openings in other races. With Mayor Eric Adams facing several potential primary [...]

Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi Galleries, is facing an uphill battle in his bid to become mayor, but he's counting on his cultural clout to win. It [...]

The opposition chalked up gains against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party in local elections across Turkey amid voter anger about the economy. The mayor of Istanbul was headed for [...]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has campaigned for his party to retake Istanbul from the incumbent mayor, whom many see as a potential future president. The contest to run city hall [...]

Mark Farrell, a venture capitalist who led the city for six months in 2018, wants his old job back. His chances hinge on how far the liberal city has moved [...]

The museum's former director, Eike Schmidt, is toying -- somewhat mischievously -- with entering the race to become Florence's mayor. Will he? Or won't he? It's a question that's been [...]

The mayor is drawing challengers more than a year before the election, a sign that she will face a tough race in a city where most voters remain in a [...]

Byline: OLIVER MOORE; Staff TORONTO -- Toronto residents go to the polls Monday to elect a mayor for the second time in eight months, after John Tory's resignation cleared the [...]

Byline: DUSTIN COOK; Staff K TORONTO -- Some contenders in Toronto's mayoral by-election say they wouldn't hesitate to use sweeping new powers granted by the province, including the ability to [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Advance voting in Toronto's mayoral contest opened Thursday, inaugurating the final stretch of the campaign with just over two weeks left before election day. [...]

Byline: MARY W. ROWE President and chief executive officer of the Canadian Urban Institute It's a common perception that Canadians love to trash talk Toronto, and most outside the city [...]

Byline: DUSTIN COOK; Staff TORONTO -- Six of the leading candidates in Toronto's mayoral by-election tried to position themselves as the best leader to tackle public safety, housing and congestion [...]

Cherelle Parker's win in the Democratic primary is a sign of how the city has changed. But Philadelphia's challenges remain deep and daunting. PHILADELPHIA -- The afternoon before Election Day, [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang Republicans suffered surprising losses Tuesday in mayoral races in Jacksonville, Fla., and Colorado Springs, dealing a blow to the GOP in two longtime conservative strongholds and [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro and John Wagner Cherelle Parker, a former city council member and state legislator, won the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary, emerging from a field of nine in a [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips While most elections across the nation take place next year, there are a few big ones in 2023. Tuesday brought primary elections across the country - from [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer May 16An Arnold slate headed by mayoral candidate Shannon Santucci claimed victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary. With 100% of precincts reporting, Santucci had about 68% of [...]

The winner of the Democratic contest is all but certain to become the next mayor of Philadelphia and could play a key role in the 2024 presidential election. Amid grave [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Philadelphia is one of the last big cities in America to have never chosen a woman to lead it. That could soon change. On Tuesday, the city [...]

Byline: Joe Napsha May 11With a decision looming on what Sewickley Township should do with its closed recreation center in Herminie, Republicans will have a choice between an incumbent supervisor [...]

Voters in Toronto will be going to the polls in two months for a mayoral by-election that will be, in typical Toronto fashion, an underwhelming event. Made necessary by the [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware, Sabrina Rodriguez and Colby Itkowitz CHICAGO - Brandon Johnson, a county commissioner and former public school teacher, was projected to win Tuesday's mayoral runoff after promising to [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware CHICAGO - Polls closed in the competitive mayoral contest on Tuesday, concluding a dramatic election that ousted the incumbent and left Chicagoans with two very distinct choices [...]

Byline: Kim Bellware CHICAGO - After a furious five-week sprint of sparring, praying and glad-handing their way around the city, the two candidates vying to be Chicago's next mayor will [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- The campaign to elect Toronto's next mayor officially got under way Monday, heralding what political observers expect to be a whirlwind race as a [...]

Byline: Sabrina Rodriguez CHICAGO - Agustina Salinas started her first day of canvassing excited about getting people from her majority Latino neighborhood out to vote in the upcoming mayoral runoff. [...]

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Eric Genrich is running a full-throated campaign in support of abortion rights, reminding voters of his position at every turn and hammering his anti-abortion opponent in [...]

CHICAGO -- Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods, a sprawling metropolis divided into distinctive pockets defined by their own architecture, restaurants, languages, ballparks and beaches. But this is [...]