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County Voters Have Decided On Contested Races

Vote Sale of Liquor in Stronghurst, Vote New Mayor In

Henderson County Election - 13 Precincts, 5,015 Registered Voters; 1,837 ballots cast (36.63% turn-out)

Those who wanted liquor in Stronghurst carried the vote in the village with 172 "No" votes to end prohibition to 128 who voted "Yes" and wanted prohibition to continue.

Write-in results for the West Central School board are not reported as yet, but the results of the three candidates on the ballot running for the 4 positions are.

Dale Buss 908; Lonnie Brent 904; Kathy Jo White 733. There were 773 write-ins.

GLADSTONE TWP

ROAD COMMISSIONER

Tom Galbraith won 188 to 149 over incumbent Richard "Dick" Bigger, Jr.

TERRE HAUTE TWP

ROAD COMMISSIONER

Dan Jack won 67 to 22 over opponent Steve Chapman

OQUAWKA

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE (4)

Jayne Seitz 261, Ron James 203, Todd Shinberger 189, Mike Fisher 186 elected over Hal Jern 182 and Jeff Pullen with 176.

CARMAN TWP

SUPERVISOR

Thomas Doran 49 won over Jerry Cage 18.

CARMAN TWP

TRUSTEES (4)

Connie Henry 53, George Steck 48, John Knupp 41, Harold Witzig 29 won over Diana Isaacson 26, Barbara Young-25, Edwin Hill-22.

GLADSTONE

TOWNSHIP CLERK

Lisa A Miller-204 over Steven Galbraith-123

GLADSTONE

TOWNSHP TRUSTEE

Larry Thompson 196, Scott Walters 186, Delwin Dee Holford 179, Bob Bailey 177, over Roger VanTine 159, Louis Johnson Jr 137, June Galbraith 131

OQUAWKA MAYOR

Sandra Fullerton Moody 158 over Steve Lumbeck 144

OQUAWKA VILLAGE

TRUSTEES (3)

Nancy Bundy 203

Troy Jern 185

John Fedler 160

over

Cindy Henry 139

Ronald Bigger 92

OQUAWKA TRUSTEES

UNEXPIRED TERMS (2)

Robert Eldridge 225

Scott Ray 204

over

Chris Sipes 74.

STRONGHURST

VILLAGE MAYOR

Gary Root 150

over incumbent

Eric Chockley 141

STRONGHURST

VILLAGE TRUSTEES(3)

David Vancil Sr - 159

Betty Waterman - 155

Michael Bohnenkamp - 148 over

Amanda Kane 115

Ken Tapscott 79

Fern Fude 65

Tommy Crotts 62

BALD BLUFF TWP

TRUSTEES (4)

LaJune Ricketts-40

Bryan Boock-37

Dale Garner-36

Terry Leary-27

over

Susan Kuster-26

BIGGSVILLE ROAD

COMMISSIONER

Chris Robbins -115 over

David Blake-35

BIGGSVILLE TWP

TRUSTEES (4)

Russell Liston-116

Jason Carnes-91

Brad Russell-90

Darrell Elsea-77

over

Patricia Daniels-47

Todd Ackermann-41

LOMAX TRUSTEES (3)

Karl Schaefer, Jr. 64

Ronald Logan-58

Kimberly Peters 55

over

Jack Scott-50

These are only the contested races in Hend. Co.