Editing Wyoming, Michigan (section)

==Government==
[[File:Wyoming, Michigan City Hall and District Court.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Wyoming City Hall and district court]]
The city has a [[council-manager government]] with both an elected mayor and an appointed city manager. Currently, [[Kent Vanderwood]] serves as Wyoming's mayor after defeating Sam Bolt and Cliff Tompkins in the 2022 election. The city council is composed of six members: three at-large and a representative from each of the three wards. The current council members are: Sheldon DeKryger, Renee Hill, Robert Arnoys, Vacant (1st Ward), Marissa Postler (2nd Ward), and Rob Postema (3rd Ward/Mayor Pro-Tem). Meetings are held at the City Hall on the first and third Mondays of every month. Work sessions are held the second Monday of each month.

=== Politics ===
The first documentation of political parties in Wyoming was during the [[1894 United States elections]], with the majority of votes in the city supporting the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].<ref name="CVDS22-333"/> Wyoming used a [[caucus]] election system that was frequently plagued with [[ballot stuffing]] until the Township switched to a [[Partisan primary|primary election]] system in 1928.<ref name="CVDS35" /> Republican support was strong in Wyoming until the [[Great Depression]] when [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was elected [[President of the United States]] in the [[1932 United States presidential election]].{{sfn|Huizinga|1971|pp=11}}<ref name="CVDS22-333"/> Prior to this, only Republican candidates would run for office in Wyoming, though in 1933 elections, members of the [[Communist Party USA]] and Democrats entered as candidates, with one Democrat being elected into local office.{{sfn|Huizinga|1971|pp=11}}<ref name="CVDS22-333" /> The Communist Party would make its last run for local office in 1935.{{sfn|Huizinga|1971|pp=11}} In 1937, voters in then Wyoming Township elected its first Democratic supervisor, Herman Wierenga.<ref name="CVDS22-333"/> In Wyoming's 1954 elections, citizens voted Democrats into every office, with the Democratic Party maintaining a strong position in the city since then.<ref name="CVDS22-333"/>

Following the [[2020 United States presidential election]], [[MLive]] reported in 2022 that mayor-elect Kent Vanderwood was included among a Michigan contingent of Republicans allegedly involved in the [[Trump fake electors plot]], reportedly organized as one of the [[attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election]] in favor of incumbent President [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kransz |first=Michael |date=August 12, 2022 |title=Trump 'fake elector' claims mayoral seat of large West Michigan city |url=https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2022/08/trump-fake-elector-one-of-two-finalists-for-mayor-of-large-west-michigan-city.html |access-date=October 31, 2022 |website=[[MLive]] |language=en}}</ref> In January 2023, former member of the [[Michigan House of Representatives]], [[Tommy Brann]], was appointed by the city council to be council-member-at-large.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 16, 2023 |title=Wyoming City Council Meeting January 16, 2023 |url=https://wktv.viebit.com/player.php?hash=tayOIWWAkTBc |access-date=January 25, 2023 |website=WKTV}}</ref> On July 18, 2023, Mayor Kent Vanderwood, along with 15 other people statewide, was indicted by the Michigan Attorney General for his role in the 2020 fake electors plot.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/07/mayor-of-wyoming-among-16-charged-in-2020-michigan-false-electors-scheme.html | title=Mayor of Wyoming among 16 charged in 2020 Michigan false electors scheme | date=July 18, 2023 }}</ref>

===Public safety===
[[File:Wyoming Police Department - Michigan.jpg|thumb|Wyoming Police Headquarters]]
On September 30, 2007, [[Metro Health Hospital]] moved from southeast Grand Rapids to its current location on the south central section of Wyoming.<ref name="A Rich Osteopathic Heritage">{{cite web |url=http://www.metrohealth.net/about-metro/history |title= History |publisher=Metro Health |access-date=November 13, 2010}}</ref> [[Spectrum Health]] and St. Mary's also have urgent care centers located in Wyoming with their hospitals located in downtown Grand Rapids.

The [[Wyoming Police Department]] has over eighty sworn police officers serving as of 2013.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web|title=City of Wyoming > About Wyoming > City Departments > Public Safety - Police|url=https://www.wyomingmi.gov/About-Wyoming/City-Departments/Public-Safety/Police|access-date=July 12, 2020|website=www.wyomingmi.gov}}</ref> In 2014, Wyoming Police Department and Wyoming Fire Department amalgamated their administrative offices into the Police Headquarters building, creating the new entity of Wyoming Department of Public Safety.<ref name=":03"/>