Editing Pleasantville, New Jersey (section)

===Local government===
Pleasantville operates under the [[City (New Jersey)|city]] form of New Jersey municipal government, one of 15 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this traditional form of government.<ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/inventory_of_municipal_forms_of_government_in_new_jersey.pdf ''Inventory of Municipal Forms of Government in New Jersey''], [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies, July 1, 2011. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref> The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the seven-member city council, all of whom are elected in partisan elections as part of the November general election. The mayor is elected to a four-year term of office. The city council includes one member elected [[at-large]] and six members elected from each of two [[Ward (United States)|wards]] to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two seats up for election each year in a three-year cycle.<ref name=DataBook>''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'', [[Rutgers University]].</ref><ref>[https://njdatabook.rutgers.edu/sites/njdatabook.rutgers.edu/files/documents/forms_of_municipal_government_in_new_jersey_9220.pdf#page=4 "Forms of Municipal Government in New Jersey"], p. 4. [[Rutgers University]] Center for Government Studies. Accessed June 1, 2023.</ref>

Augustus Harmon was appointed in November 2011 to fill the seat of his brother, Johnson Harmon, who died before the election in which he had won a fifth term of office.<ref>Stetser, Laura. [http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/pleasantville/pleasantville-general-news/18078-pleasantville-council-appoints-augustus-harmon-to-fill-late-brothers-seat.html "Augustus Harmon takes over brother's council seat"], ''Shore News Today'', November 8, 2011. Accessed November 19, 2013. "City Council appointed Augustus Harmon Monday, Nov. 7 to fill the unexpired term of his late brother Johnson Harmon, who died amid a re-election campaign for a fifth term and won the election by 96 percent of the vote."</ref>

In September 2016, the City Council appointed Nolan Q. Allen to fill the Ward 1 seat expiring in December 2017 that had been held by Lincoln Green Sr. until his death the previous month.<ref>Staff. [http://www.shorenewstoday.com/pleasantville_absecon/councilman-sworn-in-to-fill-lincoln-green-s-term/article_eeebd768-8199-11e6-bdf9-5f44ec01e2e6.html "Councilman sworn in to fill Lincoln Green's term"], ''The Current of Pleasantville & Absecon'', September 23, 2016. Accessed May 15, 2017. "Nolan Allen was sworn in Sept. 7 to City Council to fill the seat of 1st ward City Councilman Lincoln Green, who died Aug. 25 after a long illness.Allen, 26, of Pleasantville filled the unexpired three-year-term that began in January."</ref> Allen served on an interim basis until the November 2016 general election, when he was chosen to serve the balance of the term.<ref name=Atlantic2016>[http://atlanticcountyclerk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-Atlantic-County-General-Election-Results1.pdf General Election Results - November 8, 2016], [[Atlantic County, New Jersey]]. Accessed January 30, 2017.</ref>

{{As of|2023}}, the [[mayor]] of the City of Pleasantville is [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Judy Ward, whose term of office ends December 31, 2024. Members of the city council are Council President Ricky Cistrunk (D, 2023; Ward 1), James D. Barclay (D, 2025; Ward 1), Victor M. Carmona (D, 2025; Ward 2), Bertilio "Bert" Correa (D, 2024; Ward 2), Lawrence "Tony" Davenport (D, 2024; Ward 1), Joanne Famularo (D, 2023; Ward 2) and Carla Thomas (D, 2023; at-large).<ref name=Officials>[https://www.pleasantville-nj.org/government/mayor-council.asp Mayor and Council], City of Pleasantville. Accessed June 6, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.pleasantville-nj.org/pdf/2023BudgetIntroduction.pdf 2023 Municipal Data Sheet], City of Pleasantville. Accessed June 6, 2023.</ref><ref name=Govt>[https://www.atlantic-county.org/county-government/municipalities.asp#pleasantville Municipal Government], [[Atlantic County, New Jersey]]. Accessed June 6, 2023.</ref><ref name=Atlantic2022>[https://www.atlanticcountyclerk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2022-General-Election-Results-Amended-v.1.pdf 2022 General Election Results - Amended], [[Atlantic County, New Jersey|Atlantic County]] Clerk, updated December 5, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023.</ref><ref name=Atlantic2021>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Atlantic/111509/web.278093/#/summary General Election November 2, 2021 Official Results - Excluding Write-In's/Handcount],[sic] [[Atlantic County, New Jersey]], updated January 4, 2022. Accessed January 16, 2022.</ref><ref name=Atlantic2020>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Atlantic/107166/web.264614/#/summary Including Vote by Mail/Provisionals (Excluding Write-In's) [sic] Official Results - PDF (Including Write-Ins) [sic] November 3, 2020], [[Atlantic County, New Jersey]], updated January 4, 2021. Accessed January 16, 2022.</ref><ref name=Atlantic2019>[https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NJ/Atlantic/99000/web/#/summary General Election Results - November 5, 2019], [[Atlantic County, New Jersey]], updated November 19, 2019. Accessed January 1, 2020.</ref>