Mercer County Executive
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The County Executive of Mercer County, New Jersey, United States is the chief officer of the county's executive branch. The executive oversees the administration of county government and works in conjunction with Board of County Commissioners, which acts in a legislative role. The New Jersey Superior Court had subsumed and replaced county courts in 1983. The office of the County Executive is in the county seat and state capital, Trenton.
County Executive of Mercer County | |
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Incumbent Daniel J. Benson since 2024 | |
Term length | Four years; renewable |
Inaugural holder | Arthur Sypek Sr. |
Formation | 1976 |
Website | County Executive |
The County Executive is elected directly by the voters to a term of four years, which begins on January 1. At the 2010 United States Census, the county's population was 365,513.[1] As of Election Day 2017 there were 233,860 registered voters in Mercer.[2]
There have been four county executives since the establishment of the office in 1975. The incumbent, Brian M. Hughes, took office in 2004 and has been re-elected to four subsequent terms; the last election took place in November 2019.