Upcoming municipal elections in Central Palm Beach County (CPBC).

Before we proceed, the Town of Lantana will not be holding elections on March 12th. Why?

Congratulations to the honorable Town of Lantana councilmembers Dr. Lynn J. Moorhouse and Malcolm Balfour on your re-election!

Neither received a challenge in the Qualifying Period and they were both re-elected. Learn more about this latest development below.


And now that GateHouse Media is the new publisher of The Palm Beach Post — as of May 1st, 2018 — what can the public expect from election reporting going forward? 

And wouldn’t every municipality in CPBC want a reporter with a track record of fairness and success? And a winner of several awards for journalism and political reporting?

Reporting on local elections here in CPBC would be the perfect beat for reporter Chris Persaud who just last month made his return to The Palm Beach Post. The latest effort by Persaud was reporting on the upcoming elections in Boynton Beach (see below).

Mr. Persaud is the former award-winning Post reporter who covered politics and elections here in the City of Lake Worth following on the heels of Lona O’Connor and long-time beat reporter Willy Howard.

Interestingly, it was Persaud who was at the PBC Supervisor of Elections (SOE) facility in Riviera Beach watching votes being counted by the canvassing board in August 2014 when the unimaginable occurred. About what happened the editor at the Post later wrote, “[I]t remains an offense to democracy.”

That offense being when Susan Bucher, the former SOE in Palm Beach County, took ballots cast from the City of Lake Worth and the editor at the Post later wrote, “[S]he decided to deep-six them.”

Anyhow. . .

Just last week journalist Chris Persaud updated Palm Beach County with this news headlined, “2019 election: 14 candidates, including 5 for mayor, running for office in Boynton”. Here is the first paragraph from the story by Persaud datelined Jan. 17th:


BOYNTON BEACH — Voters this spring have a menu of choices in the third biggest city in Palm Beach County after qualifying ended this week.

Nine candidates are vying for three city commission seats while five are in contention for the mayor’s position March 12. Commissioner Mack McCray, who was elected in 2017, does not face reelection until 2020.

Now to the Town of Lantana.

Lantana is the City of Lake Worth’s neighbor to the south. The Town of Lantana incorporated in 1924, eleven years after the “Town of Lake Worth” became incorporated.

The elections scheduled for March 12th in Lantana will not happen. Why? Because both of the incumbents went unchallenged. They are the honorable Councilmember Dr. Lynn J. Moorhouse, DDS, in Group 1 and the honorable Councilmember Malcolm Balfour in Group 2.

The Lantana Town Council is comprised of five members who serve staggered three-year terms and are elected on a nonpartisan basis.

Town of Lantana Mayor David J. Stewart (first elected in 2000 and re-elected six times; up for re-election in 2021) and councilmembers in Groups 1–4 are elected town-wide.

Mayor Dave Stewart serves as the presiding officer at Town Council meetings and as the official head of the Town for legislative and ceremonial purposes. The Town Council is responsible for passing ordinances and other policy directives necessary for the operation of the Town.

About the Town of Lantana.

Lantana is a coastal community in Palm Beach County and encompasses an area of approximately three square miles. The Town’s recreational facilities include an “eight-acre municipal beach with 745′ of ocean frontage, open picnic areas, oceanfront pavilion, showers, restrooms, lifeguard station, and playground area.”

To learn more about this very unique municipality in South Florida click on this link.