City officials

The five members of the Piqua City Commission, back to 2018, with the certified result of every election that seated them.

How the City Commission works

Piqua is run by a five-member commission. The city is divided into five wards, and each ward elects one commissioner to a four-year term. The terms are staggered rather than concurrent, so only part of the commission is on the ballot in any given year — wards 1, 2 and 5 vote together, and wards 3 and 4 vote together two years later. That is why a Piqua ballot never lets you replace the whole commission at once.

The commission is the city's legislative body. It passes ordinances and resolutions, adopts the budget, and sets policy. It does not run the city day to day — that job belongs to a City Manager the commission hires, and who answers to it.

The mayor is one of those same five commissioners, not a separately elected office. Since a charter change that took effect in 2018, the commissioners choose the mayor and vice mayor from among themselves for two-year stretches, so being mayor is a role added on top of a ward seat rather than a seat of its own. Nobody votes for “mayor of Piqua” on a ballot.

When a commissioner leaves mid-term, the remaining members appoint a replacement to serve out the rest of that term. That is a normal part of the process rather than an irregularity, but it does mean a seat can be held by someone no voter picked — which is why every entry below is marked as either elected or appointed.

The commission, year by year

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Everyone who has served since 2018

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Where this comes from

Vote totals are the Miami County Board of Elections' certified canvass — the official count, which is not always the number reported on election night. Where a detail rests on news coverage rather than a record it is marked press, and where it was reasoned out rather than read directly it is marked inferred.

Known gaps. Ward assignments for the two commissioners serving in 2018 and 2019 who left before the 2019 election are inferred rather than read off a roster. The 2015 canvass, which seated the fifth ward for 2016–2019, has not been retrieved, so no vote total is shown for that term. Several resignation and appointment dates come from press coverage and have not been checked against the minutes.

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