 In the 2013 general election, voters approved an expansion of the Township Committee from three members to five, with three seats up for election in November 2014; the existing seat expiring that year, a new three-year seat and a seat with a two-year term, with the full cycle starting as of the 2015 general election., members of the Chesterfield Township Committee are Mayor Jeremy I. Liedtka (R, term on committee and as mayor ends December 31, 2020), Deputy Mayor Lido "Lee" Panfili (R, term on committee ends 2020; term as deputy mayor ends 2019), Shreekant Dhopte (D, 2021), Denise E. Koetas-Dale (D, 2020) and Michael J. Russo (R. 2022).After the November 2016 general election ended with a tie between Democrat Rita Romeu and Republican Ron Kolczynski who both had 1,289 votes for the second of two township committee seats, a judge in January 2017 decided that Romeu won the race as she was entitled to two additional votes that had not been counted in November.