Editing Lynchburg, Virginia (section)

==Government== 
[[File:City Hall at Lynchburg, VA IMG 4111.JPG|thumb|right|Lynchburg City Hall]]
Lynchburg uses a council-manager system. The Lynchburg City Council is composed of seven members that each serve a four-year term. There are four wards that elect a member; the remaining three are elected in at-large elections in which the top three candidates obtain a seat. The City Council is also responsible for appointing a city manager, city attorney, and city clerk.

===City Council===
* Larry Taylor (Mayor) (at-large)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Robert Locklear & Hayden |date=2025-01-03 |title=Larry Taylor voted as Lynchburg's next mayor; Curt Diemer elected as vice-mayor |url=https://wset.com/news/local/larry-taylor-voted-as-lynchburgs-next-mayor-curt-diemer-elected-as-vice-mayor-january-2025 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=WSET |language=en}}</ref>
* Curt Diemer (Vice-Mayor) (Ward III)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Advance |first=MARK HAND The News & |date=2025-01-03 |title=Two new members of Lynchburg City Council sworn in |url=https://newsadvance.com/news/timmer-diemer-city-council-oaths-of-office-lynchburg/article_a0bfa018-c93b-11ef-8184-37b4d7aab427.html |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=NewsAdvance.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" />
* Chris Faraldi (Ward IV)
* Marty Misjuns (at-large)
* Stephanie Reed (at-large)
* Jaqueline Timmer (Ward I)<ref name=":3" />
* Sterling Wilder (Ward II)

===List of mayors===
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# John Wiatt, 1806<ref>{{Citation |location=Lynchburg |title=Sketch Book of Lynchburg Va. |publisher=Edward Pollock and S.C. Judson |date=1887 |chapter=Mayors of Lynchburg |chapter-url=https://www.archive.org/stream/sketchbookoflync00pol#page/169/mode/1up}}</ref>
# Roderick Taliaferro, 1807
# Samuel J. Harrison, 1808
# John Lynch Jr., 1809
# M. Lambert, 1810
# John Schoolfield, 1811
# James Stewart, 1812
# Robert Morris, 1813
# Samuel J. Harrison, 1814
# James Stewart, 1815
# John M. Gordon, 1816
# Samuel J. Harrison, 1817
# William Morgan, 1818
# James Stewart, 1819
# John Thurman, 1820
# Micajah Davis, 1821
# John Hancock, 1822
# Thomas A. Holcombe, 1823
# Albon McDaniel, 1824
# John Victor, 1825
# Albon McDaniel, 1826
# Christopher Winfree, 1827
# Albon McDaniel, 1828
# Ammon Hancock, 1829
# [[Elijah Fletcher]], 1830
# John R. D. Payne, 1831
# Elijah Fletcher, 1833
# John M. Warwick, 1833
# Henry M. Didlake, 1834
# Samuel J. Wiatt, 1835
# Pleasant Labby, 1836
# Ammon Hancock, 1837
# Martin W. Davenport, 1838
# John R. D. Payne, 1839
# Samuel Nowlin, 1840
# Ammon Hancock, 1841
# Henry M. Didlake, 1842
# Edwin Mathews, 1843
# David W. Burton, 1844
# M. Hart, 1845
# Henry M. Didlake, 1846
# Daniel J. Warwick, 1847
# Henry 0 Schoolfield, 1848
# Edwin Mathews, 1849
# Henry M. Didlake, 1850
# William D. Branch, 1851
# Albon McDaniel, 1869
# James M. Cobbs, 1870
# George H. Burch, 1872
# Samuel A. Bailey, 1876
# Samuel Griffin Wingfield, 1880<ref>{{cite book |title=Virginia and Virginians |url=https://archive.org/details/virginiaandvirg00lewigoog |year=1888 |publisher=H.H. Hardesty |location=Richmond |oclc=68181803 |author=R.A. Brock}}</ref>
# A. H. Pettigrew, 1882
# Nathaniel Clayton Manson Jr., 1884–1891<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/118-0060_Diamond_Hill_HD_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912210532/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Lynchburg/118-0060_Diamond_Hill_HD_1979_Final_Nomination.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-12 |url-status=live |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Diamond Hill Historic District |author=Alison Blanton |date=June 2001 |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources}}</ref>
# Robert D. Yancey, circa 1900<ref>{{Citation |publisher=J. P. Bell Company, printers |title=Lynchburg and its People |url=https://archive.org/stream/lynchburgitspeop00chri#page/n7/mode/2up |author=W. Asbury Christian |date=1900 |oclc=2847898}}</ref>
# Royston Jester Jr., circa 1918<ref name=potter2004>{{cite book |title=Lynchburg: a City Set on Seven Hills |author1=Clifton Potter |author2=Dorothy Potter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-R8hGiNjLcAC |year=2004 |publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-0-7385-2461-0}}</ref>
# Unknown
# L. E. Litchford, circa 1937<ref name=Graveyard>{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/lynchburg.html |title=Mayors of Lynchburg, Virginia |editor=[[Lawrence Kestenbaum]] |work=[[Political Graveyard]] |access-date=March 28, 2017}}</ref>
# Clarence G. Burton, 1946–1948<ref name=Marquis2009>{{citation |title=Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607–1984 |location=New Providence, NJ |publisher=[[Marquis Who's Who]] |isbn=978-1-84972-397-8 |year=2009}}</ref>
# Jerome V. Morrison, c. 1952<ref name=Graveyard />
# John L. Suttenfield, c. 1953–1956<ref name=Graveyard />
# Leighton B. Dodd, c. 1973
# Elliott Shearer, c. 1982<ref>{{citation |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=Lynchburg Applies for Loan From Japan |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/05/12/lynchburg-applies-for-loan-from-japan/270bd542-8966-45d4-9f34-ea994d499c6e/ |date=May 12, 1982}}</ref>
# Jimmie Bryan, c. 1986<ref name=potter2004 />
# Unknown
# M.W. "Teedy" Thornhill Jr., 1991–1992<ref>{{citation |title=First African American Mayor of Lynchburg dies |date=July 3, 2016 |work=[[WSET-TV|Wset.com]] |url=http://wset.com/news/local/first-african-american-mayor-of-lynchburg-dies}}</ref>
# James S. Whitaker, 1994–1998<ref>{{citation |title=News-7 at Six |date=February 28, 1998 |url=http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/WDBJ-7/script_archives/98/0298/022898/022898.6.htm |publisher=[[WDBJ]]-7 |location=Roanoke |via=[[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]], Digital Library and Archives, "Virginia News"}}</ref>
# Carl B. Hutcherson Jr., c. 2002–2005<ref>{{citation |title=Former Lynchburg mayor Carl Hutcherson Jr. finds renewed purpose as Baptist pastor |date=March 14, 2010 |url=http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/former-lynchburg-mayor-carl-hutcherson-jr-finds-renewed-purpose-as/article_63f2b6d0-eabb-5a55-b2cd-74fef4179f94.html |work=[[News & Advance]] |location=Lynchburg}}</ref>
# Michael Gillette, c. 2015<ref name=Council>{{cite web |url=http://www.lynchburgva.gov/city-council-meetings |title=City Council Meetings |publisher=City of Lynchburg, Virginia |access-date=March 28, 2017}}</ref>
# Joan Foster, 2016–2018<ref name=Council />
# Treney Tweedy, 2018–2020 <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lynchburgva.gov/mayor-treney-tweedy-large |title=Mayor Treney Tweedy (at-large) |publisher=The City of Lynchburg, Virginia |access-date=September 30, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930081419/http://www.lynchburgva.gov/mayor-treney-tweedy-large}}</ref>
# MaryJane Dolan, 2020–2022 <ref name="Graham Media Group">{{cite web |last1=Williamson |first1=Jeff |title=Mary Jane Dolan elected mayor of Lynchburg |url=https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2020/07/01/mary-jane-dolan-elected-mayor-of-lynchburg/ |website=NBC10 |date=July 2020 |publisher=Graham Media Group |access-date=July 1, 2020}}</ref>
# Stephanie Reed, 2023–2025 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Mayor Stephanie Reed (at-large)(Mayor 2023-2024) {{!}} City of Lynchburg, VA |url=https://www.lynchburgva.gov/mayor-stephanie-reed-largemayor-2023-2024 |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=www.lynchburgva.gov}}</ref>
# Larry Taylor, 2025-present <ref>{{Cite web |title=Larry Taylor voted as Lynchburg's next mayor; Curt Diemer elected as vice-mayor |url=https://wset.com/news/local/larry-taylor-voted-as-lynchburgs-next-mayor-curt-diemer-elected-as-vice-mayor-january-2025 |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=wset.com}}</ref>
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=== Politics === 
{{PresHead|place=Lynchburg, Virginia|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title = Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2004|Republican|14,400|11,727|213|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|12,518|10,374|614|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|11,441|10,281|1,290|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|12,518|9,587|2,864|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|15,323|8,279|324|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|18,047|8,542|183|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|15,245|7,783|1,389|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|14,564|8,227|1,013|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|13,259|4,208|423|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|9,943|4,305|4,051|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|10,044|6,758|32|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|7,271|4,961|24|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|6,806|3,362|334|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|7,090|3,848|11|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,373|2,480|1,894|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,396|4,302|15|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,966|4,656|9|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,373|3,697|22|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,200|3,656|80|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,730|1,987|0|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|606|2,086|128|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|609|2,096|26|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|353|1,465|24|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|111|1,487|242|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|473|962|14|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|292|995|14|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|660|1,081|12|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|1,647|1,657|63|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|1,358|2,422|31|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|1,796|2,054|11|Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|1,760|1,926|0|Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|861|1,400|1|Virginia}}
Lynchburg has traditionally been a conservative stronghold. This predates the influence of [[Liberty University]]; it was one of the first areas of the state where the old-line [[Byrd Organization|Byrd Democrats]] began splitting their tickets at the national level in the 1950s. However, conservative Democrats continued to hold most local offices well into the 1970s.

However, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] has seen a gradual increase in popularity in the city since the 1990s, and Lynchburg's political atmosphere has become increasingly moderate. In the [[2020 United States presidential election]], a plurality of voters in Lynchburg voted for Democratic challenger [[Joe Biden]] over Republican incumbent [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2020%20November%20General/Site/Locality/LYNCHBURG_CITY/Index.html|title=2020 November General Official Results|website=Virginia Department of Elections|access-date=23 November 2020}}</ref> Biden was the first Democrat to carry Lynchburg since [[Harry S. Truman]] in 1948.

Trump flipped the city back in [[2024 United States presidential election in Virginia|2024]], though he won it by a slightly smaller margin than in 2016.