Democrats get control of Kennett Board of Supervisors
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Kennett Township Democrat Richard Leff won his Township Supervisor race against Republican Jim Przywitowski, effectively giving Democrats control of the township Board of Supervisors for the first time in recent memory, in one of the area’s few contested local races in Tuesday’s elections.
Leff defeated Przywitowski by a 55.5% to 44.4% margin, and with Scudder Stevens having won election in 2011, Democrats have swept to power in the township.
Most of the other races in the immediate area were less dramatic, with many races unopposed.
In the Kennett Consolidated School District Board of Education races, incumbent Republican Doug Stirling won reelection in Region A, running unopposed. In Region B, Kendra Lacosta also ran unopposed.
In Kennett Square, Mayor Matthew Fettick won reelection easily, running unopposed.
In the Borough Council race, Danilo Maffei, Geoffrey Bosley, D. Lynn Sinclair and Patrick Taylor all ran unopposed for four seats. For an unexpired two-year seat, there were no candidates, but 76 write-in votes.
In Kennett Township, Democrat Richard Leff defeated Republican Jim Przywitowski, by a 55.5% to 44.4% margin, giving Democrats control of the township’s Board of Supervisors for the first time in decades, if not longer.
In New Garden, Republicans Richard Ayotte and Randy Geouque outpolled Democrats Mike Donovan and Richard Zimny for supervisor. Republican J. Patrick Little won an unexpired two-year term on the board, having run unopposed.
Based on unofficial numbers from Chester County Voter Services, county-wide turnout was fairly light, with just 22.7% of registered voters casting ballots Tuesday.
In the county-wide races for row offices and court of Common Pleas, the GOP won an easy sweep. Patrick Carmody and Jeffrey Sommer held off Julia Malloy-Good for two spots on the Court of Common Pleas. In the row office races, incumbent Republican county treasurer Ann Duke easily defeated Democrat Nina Haslip, and GOP newcomers Norman MacQueen (Comptroller), Robin Marcello (Clerk of Courts), Gordon Eck (Coroner) won election over the Democratic slate of Carmen Boyd, Tisha Brown and Howard Jones.
The four county judges on the ballot for retention, Jacqueline Carroll Cody, Edward Griffith, John Hall and James P. MacElree II all won bids for retention on the Court of Common Pleas.
