FILE PHOTO: Voters cast their ballots in state and local elections at Pillow Boro Hall in Pillow, Pennsylvania, U.S. November 5, 2019. REUTERS/Mark Makela
(Reuters) - The last time Democrats controlled the government in Delaware County, a suburb of Philadelphia, the U.S. Civil War had just ended.
But on Tuesday, Democrats ended a century and a half of Republican dominance in the Pennsylvania county. In two other Philadelphia-area suburbs, they captured Chester County's board of commissioners for the first time in history and seized control of Bucks County's board of commissioners for the first time since the 1980s.
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