The county has voted Republican for the past 150 years, in large part due to the operation of a political machine that, for decades, efficiently enforced party loyalty through jobs and services. The Democratic candidates for County Council are Christine Reuther, an attorney and former Nether Providence commissioner Monica Taylor, a professor and program director of Kinesiology at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and director of the Upper Darby School Board and Elaine Paul Schaefer, former president of Radnor Township’s board of commissioners and a founder of the Radnor Conservancy.įor the first time since the end of the Civil War, the Republicans of Delaware County are in danger of losing their majority control of the five-member county council.
Education Department and Mike Morgan, chair of the Foundation of the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce. The Republican candidates are Jim Raith, businessman and chairman of Thornbury Township Supervisors Kelly Colvin, Associate Director of Temple University’s Center on Regional Politics and former staffer of several GOP elected officials and the U.S. There are six candidates competing for the three seats: three Republicans and three Democrats. As a result, the two current Democratic members, Kevin Madden and Brian Zidek, are not up for reelection for another two years while the three remaining seats, previously held by Republicans whose terms have now expired, are open in the coming election. Members of the County Council are elected for four-year terms at staggered two-year intervals. Delaware County will be holding elections on Tuesday, November 5th for three open seats on County Council.
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