As a result of the November 4, 2014 General Election, Billie J. Gilpin, Donna F. May, and Edward C. Crossland, all Republicans, were elected to the position of Judge of the Orphans' Court. The lone Democrat, Charles "Buck" Taylor, was unsuccessful in his election bid.
There had been seven candidates running in the June 24, 2014 primary for one of the three open seats on the non-partisan Board of Education (two current Board members ran for re-election and a third member had chosen not to run for re-election.)
Dave Caporale, a local businessman, came in first in a three-way race to fill two upcoming vacant positions on the Cumberland City Council. As noted in this campaign ad which appeared in the Cumberland Times-News just two days before the November 6, 2012 General Election, Caporale promise to be "hard working" and to bring "fresh ideas for the Queen City". Caporale is due to be sworn in on January 7, 2013.
The City of Cumberland held elections in 2014 for Mayor and City Council. The city elections are non-partisan. Three individuals ran for the office of mayor, and four campaigned for the two open city council seats.* The number of candidates did not warrant a June primary, thus the winners were determined in the November 4, 2014 General Election.
As a result of the November 4, 2014 General Election, Brian K. Grim was elected Mayor of the City of Cumberland. Seth D. Bernard and David F. Kauffman were elected to the city council.
Mark L. Widmyer was one of three Republicans elected in 2010 as a Judge to the three-member Allegany County Orphans Court. Widmyer declined to run for re-election in 2014, but instead ran for the office of Allegany County Commissioner. He was defeated in the June 24, 2014 Republican Primary.
Ed Hedrick was elected to the Cumberland City Council in 2000, and was re-elected in 2004. He chose not to seek re-election in 2008 for a third four-year term and left office in 2009. This billboard, which depicts both Hedrick and City Councilman Terry Rephann, was located at the entrance to the Narrows at the edge of the Cumberland city limits. The photograph was taken in October 2004. Rephann served from July 2000 to September 2007 when he resigned to accept employment out of the area.
Floyd "Pete" Elliott, 1926-2013, served on the Cumberland City Council for 20 years. He was elected to his first of six non-consecutive terms in 1986. In seeking re-election for 2010 he presented himself as "Experienced - Responsive - Dedicated – Respected.” Elliott was unsuccessful in his re-election bid to secure one of the three available city council seats.
Kevin Kelly, a Democrat, was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1986 and served from 1987 through 1995 when he was unsuccessful in his re-election bid. Kelly was again elected to the House of Delegates, District 1-B, in 1998, and has served in the House of Delegates since 1999. As noted in this August 31, 2010 Cumberland Times-News campaign ad, Kelly promised "Decisive and Responsible Leadership" in his 2010 re-election campaign.
Donna May, a Republican, has been an elected Judge of the Allegany County Orphan's Court for 24 years, since 1986. On November 2, 2010 she was re-elected as the top vote-getter to another four-year term of office. The early campaign card depicted here, next to an October 17, 2010 Cumberland Times-News election advertisement, is from 1990. In the November 4, 2014 General Election, Donna May was re-elected to another four-year term as Judge of the Orphans' Court.
Craig Robertson, a Republican, noted in his 2010 bid for Sheriff of Allegany County that he has over 31 years of law enforcement experience, having served with the Cumberland Police Department and the Allegany County Sheriff's Office, having risen to the position of Lieutenant in the Sheriff's Office. As noted in an advertisement appearing in the August 31, 2010 edition of the Cumberland Times-News, he had the endorsement of the current and out-going Allegany County Sheriff, David A.