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The Charlotte City Council is the legislative body of the City of Charlotte and forms part of a council–manager system of government. The Council is made up of eleven members and the Mayor, all elected to two-year terms in odd-numbered years. Four Council Members are elected at-large with the other seven representing districts. Though elected ...
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Dimple Tansen Ajmera is an American politician and accountant who has served on the Charlotte City Council since 2017. [1] [2] Ajmera is the first Asian-American and youngest woman to ever hold this position. [3] In 2021, she became the second sitting Charlotte City Council member to give birth since the arrival of her daughter in 2021. [4]
Lyles defeated Kenny Smith, a Republican city council member, in the 2017 Charlotte Mayoral Election, winning with 72,073 votes (59.15%) to Smith's 49,652 (40.75%). [14] She is the first African-American female mayor of the city, and also its first former city administrator to serve as mayor.
From 1999 until his election to the Senate in 2004, Graham served as a Charlotte City Council Member representing the city's 4th District. In 2019, Graham ran for the Charlotte City Council again. He won the Democratic primary for the District 2 seat on September 10, [ 1 ] and the general election on November 5. [ 2 ]
On November 5, 2013, he was elected as the mayor of Charlotte with approximately 53 percent of the vote. [5] He was sworn in as mayor on December 2, 2013, at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. [6] At the time of his election as mayor, Cannon was a member of the Charlotte City Council and Mayor Pro Tempore. [7]
Foxx was first elected to the Charlotte City Council in 2005 to an at-large seat, and was re-elected in 2007. He won election as Charlotte's 54th and youngest mayor in 2009 and was re-elected in 2011; he became the city's first Democratic mayor since Harvey Gantt left office in 1987. [citation needed]
Charlotte (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t / ⓘ SHAR-lət) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County.The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, [10] making Charlotte the 15th-most populous city in the United States, the seventh-most populous city in the South, and the second-most populous city in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida.