Cherry Hill elects Democrat Chuck Cahn
Democrat Chuck Cahn will succeed Mayor Bernie Platt in Cherry Hill, maintaining more than three decades of Democratic control in Cherry Hill.
Cahn surpassed Republican Stephen Buividas in yesterday’s election, by a margin of 58 to 42 percent, according to unofficial election results from Camden County.
Mayor Bernie Platt made a surprising announcement earlier this year that he would not seek re-election, after serving nearly a decade in office. He’s also previously served on Cherry Hill council and as a Camden County Freeholder.
After graduating from Rutgers with a degree in Economics and Business Administration, Cahn worked at his father’s business, Stewart Industries, a document imaging company. Cahn took over the business and transformed and expanded the company, he said. After 30 years with the company, Cahn sold the business in 2007. Cahn is now a partner in CKS Real Estate Holdings, LLC, a regional real estate investment company.
Buividas, 42, spent his undergraduate career studying Political Science and History. He later graduated from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School and is licensed to practice law in New Jersey in Pennsylvania. He has maintained his practice at The Law Office of Stephen J. Buividas in Cherry Hill for the past 11 years.
Democratic council incumbents N. John Amato and Sara Lipsett, along with Democratic newcomer Melinda Kane, the mother of Jeremy Kane, who was killed in January 2010 by a suicide bomb attack while on patrol in the Helmand Province in Afghanistan, were elected.
The Democrats beat Republicans Ann Madden Tufano, Maria Heckendorn and Dolores Kelly.
