1.   The mayor was elected on a promise to cleanse the city government of corruption.

2.   But more than electing a mayor Tuesday, the vote seemed to be about making a statement.

3.   Descendants of its residents gather there each year to elect a mayor and to remember Fleury as the village that was killed in action.

4.   Despite the attention on the South, voters went to polls to elect mayors in several cities.

5.   Electing a mayor is a cultural as well as a political statement.

6.   For the first time, Mexico City residents will elect their mayor, the official who governs more people and public funds than any other except the president.

7.   For the first time in recent history, Mexico City will elect its mayor.

8.   For example, Hispanics helped elect Republican mayors Richard Riordan in Los Angeles and Rudolph Giuliani in New York.

9.   Friday, Clinton will extol the virtues of local democracy with a visit to a tiny village which elected its mayor by popular vote.

10.   In nearly three decades, no mayor has been elected to two successive full terms.