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Four-year term

Suffolk voters to decide on four-year terms for legislators amid even-year election law shift

by Aug 1, 2025
A bipartisan effort by Suffolk County lawmakers to expand the terms of county legislators from two years to four will appear on the ballot this November.

If at first you don’t succeed: Four-year supervisor term set for another public hearing

by Dec 3, 2019
Voters have rejected the idea of a four-year term for the town supervisor three times since 2005. A town board majority voted today to call a new public hearing on the proposal. It will be held Dec. 17.

Four-year supervisor term will not be put on the ballot this November

by Aug 22, 2018
The town board split along party lines to reject a proposal that would have sent a four-year supervisor term to the voters for the fourth time since 2005.