Before Sanders's mayoral victory, Leahy says, it was easy not to take him seriously.

Zimmer's three running mates won control of the city council despite Cammarano's mayoral victory.

Chase's mayoral victory as the first socialist mayor in America captured the imagination of the left wing press.

The number represents the votes the elder Daley tallied in his first mayoral victory in 1955.

Now, another Daley was standing in front of them, on the brink of another mayoral victory.

Mr. Spallone won an upset mayoral victory two years ago on the strength of his opposition to a Federal judge's order to build integrated housing.

(Never mind that the Republicans have not had a mayoral victory since 1947 and have won only a few citywide races in those years.)

This was the fourth straight mayoral victory by a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

Mr. Oancea is one of the few survivors of the mayoral victories.

Canfield's mayoral victory left his councilman seat open, so according to the city charter the city council could appoint a replacement.