Polls close, election results begin to roll in
To see all election results, click here.
UPDATE 9:40 pm: The Boone County final election results show that Teresa Maledy and Susan Blackburn won the two school board seats.
The $30 million CPS bond issue also passed with 83% of the vote.
UPDATE 8:38 pm: Macon County final results show that James “Talt” Holman won the Macon Mayor position.
UPDATE 8:35 pm: Maries County final results show that Josh Seaver has won the City of Belle mayor position.
UPDATE 8:33 pm:
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UPDATE 8:25 pm: Jon Hensley has won the Jefferson City Ward 5 city council seat.
{“url”:”https://twitter.com/AlyssaABC17/status/981340874394259456″,”author_name”:”Alyssa Toomey”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/AlyssaABC17″,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;It’s official: Jon Hensley elected to JC Ward 5 city council seat. My interview with him will air in our 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/abc17news?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#abc17news&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– Alyssa Toomey (@AlyssaABC17) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/AlyssaABC17/status/981340874394259456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;April 4, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}
UPDATE 8 pm: The Monroe County final results show that Robert Dowell won the Monroe City Mayor position with 41.73% of the votes.
The Monroe County election summary also showed Chris Popkes won the Paris mayor position.
ORIGINAL STORY: The polls have closed in Mid-Missouri and some absentee ballots are in.
The Boone County absentee ballots show there is a close race for the CPS Board of Education.
{“url”:”https://twitter.com/TaylorABC17/status/981325558004019202″,”author_name”:”Taylor Petras”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/TaylorABC17″,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;BOONE ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN: Tight race for the CPS Board of Education. 76% of voters in favor of $30 million bond issue. &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/abc17news?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#abc17news&#lt;/a&#gt; &#lt;a href=”https://t.co/BpDddZ1pZY”&#gt;pic.twitter.com/BpDddZ1pZY&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/p&#gt;– Taylor Petras (@TaylorABC17) &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/TaylorABC17/status/981325558004019202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;April 4, 2018&#lt;/a&#gt;&#lt;/blockquote&#gt;n&#lt;script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″&#gt;&#lt;/script&#gt;n”,”width”:550,”height”:null,”type”:”rich”,”cache_age”:”3153600000″,”provider_name”:”Twitter”,”provider_url”:”https://twitter.com”,”version”:”1.0″}
The absentee ballot also shows that Michael Trapp is leading for the Second Ward City Council seat.
Boone County officials said the county’s turnout was 15.4% of registered voters.
Cole County absentee votes are also in:
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Monroe County absentee ballots show that Aaron Eckman is in the lead for the Paris R-II School Board, Russell Dutton is in the lead for the Centralia R-VI School Board 3-year-term and Erle Bennett is in the lead for Centralia R-VI 2-year-term.
For a look at all of the election results, click here.
