Editing Lakewood, Ohio (section)

==Government==
Lakewood is governed by an elected mayor and elected council. The council has seven members, with four members representing wards in the city and the other three are at-large council members.<ref>{{cite web |title=Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, Ohio |url=http://www.onelakewood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Third-Amended-Charter-of-the-City-of-Lakewood-as-amended-by-the-electorate-11052019.pdf |publisher=The City of Lakewood, Ohio |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=April 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417141427/http://www.onelakewood.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Third-Amended-Charter-of-the-City-of-Lakewood-as-amended-by-the-electorate-11052019.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Once politically dominated by [[New England]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]], Lakewood has become a center for the [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] wing of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in Ohio. It was a stronghold of support for former Congressman [[Dennis Kucinich]], and in the [[2016 Ohio Democratic presidential primary|2016 Democratic presidential primary]], its voters strongly backed [[Bernie Sanders]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Exner |first=Rich |title=Did your neighborhood vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders? Cuyahoga County city and precinct votes |newspaper=[[The Plain Dealer]] |url=https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2016/03/did_your_neighborhood_vote_for_2.html |date=March 16, 2016 |access-date=August 6, 2022 |archive-date=August 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806162306/https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2016/03/did_your_neighborhood_vote_for_2.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The city is currently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by [[Shontel Brown]] ([[OH-11]], D).<ref>{{cite web |title=District |url=https://kaptur.house.gov/district |website=Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur |date=December 4, 2012 |publisher=U.S. House of Representatives |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407015522/https://kaptur.house.gov/district |url-status=live }}</ref> In the Ohio General Assembly it is represented by [[Nickie Antonio]] (D) in the State Senate<ref>{{cite web |title=Senator Nickie J. Antonio |url=https://www.ohiosenate.gov/senators/antonio |website=The Ohio Senate |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=April 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426174712/https://www.ohiosenate.gov/senators/antonio |url-status=live }}</ref> and by [[Michael J. Skindell|Michael Skindell]] in the (D) State House.<ref>{{cite web |title=Representative Michael J. Skindell |url=http://www.ohiohouse.gov/michael-skindell |website=The Ohio House of Representatives |publisher=Ohio House of Representatives |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=April 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423075435/http://www.ohiohouse.gov/michael-skindell |url-status=live }}</ref>

Notable former mayors include [[Anthony Sinagra]] (1978{{spnd}}1990), [[Madeline Cain]] (1996{{spnd}}2003), and [[Ed FitzGerald]] (2008{{spnd}}2010).<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Mayor's Office|date=February 22, 2016 |url=http://www.onelakewood.com/accordions/history-of-the-mayors-office/|publisher=City of Lakewood, Ohio|access-date=August 30, 2020|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926193209/http://www.onelakewood.com/accordions/history-of-the-mayors-office/|url-status=live}}</ref>