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Acclamation / acclaimed - No one else ran against the candidate, so they win by default

Civic
/ municipal/ city/ town/ mayoral - obviously we all know the English language has endless subtle nuances, so that no two words ever seem to be exact synonyms.  However, I use most of these words interchangeably on this website.

Councillor - a person elected to sit on city council

Incumbent - a person already holding office (In an election, candidates that already held office who are running again are referred to as "incumbent".)

Partisan - supporting a particular political party or their ideologies

Trustee - a person appointed to the school board (councillor is on council, trustee is on school board)

Secular - not pertaining to, or not connected with religion

Ward
- a section of a city or town, designed for election purposes