Unofficial town election results

Unofficial results of the General Municipal Election for the Town of Ekalaka show that Raquel S. Williams, David Loudermilk and Jimmy W. Mackay have been elected to the Town Council.

Williams, who ran unopposed for a four-year term, received 134 votes.

Loudermilk and Mackay were each elected to two-year terms, defeating Micheal John Archer and Patrick W. Strickland . Loudermilk received 117 votes while Mackay received 89. Archer had 48 votes and Strickland received 16.

Two hundred fifty-three ballots were mailed to active electors residing within the Town of Ekalaka on September 16. One hundred forty-eight were returned before the 8 p.m. deadline on Tuesday for a 58 percent voter turnout. To be active, voters must have cast a ballot during the last election.

For comparison, seventy-one percent of voters cast ballots during the 2017 town election.

2015 was the first year that the Town of Ekalaka used mail ballots for election. That year saw a 49 percent voter turnout.

All of the one hundred forty-eight ballots that were returned to the clerk and recorder’s office before the deadline were filled out correctly.