ELECTION NIGHT UPDATES: Incumbents win Columbia Board of Education seats

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Three incumbents easily won reelection to the Columbia Board of Education on Tuesday.

April Ferrao led the pack with 6,537 votes, followed by John Lyman with 6,218 and Paul Harper with 6,183.

Incumbent Don Waterman was defeated in the race for Ward 5 on the Columbia City Council by newcomer Christina Hartmann. Hartmann won 1,332 to 981.

Southern Boone School District voters approved a bond issue for construction and other costs 937-281. The three incumbents -- Amy Marie Begemann, Chris Felmlee and Karen Kraus Bill, all won reelection to the school board.

Rodemeyer, Duckworth, Scheperle win JC Board of Education seats

A Callaway County woman has won a seat on the Jefferson City Board of Education, along with a former county commissioner and a state employee.

Michelle Rodemeyer of Holts Summit took the most votes in the seven-candidate race, getting 2,932. State employee Gretchen Duckworth came in second place with 2,284 and former commissioner Kris Scheperle received 2,217 votes. He nudged out Cierra Griffin, who had 2,198.

The Callaway County Ambulance District won approval for its use tax.

In the Fulton Board of Education race, Joe Davis, Connie Epperson and Emily Omohundro won seats.

Incumbents enjoy commanding lead in Columbia Board of Education race

The three incumbents running for reelection to the Columbia Board of Education had a commanding lead with nearly half of the county's precincts counted.

April Ferrao had the most votes with 3,779. John Lyman was second with 3,598 and Paul Harper had 3,576.

The incumbents were also winning in the Southern Boone Board of Education race.

The race for Columbia's Fifth Ward city council seat shows challenger Christina Hartman with 800 votes over Don Waterman's 642.

Full Cole County election results posted

A Holts Summit woman will bring Callaway County representation to the Jefferson City Board of Education.

Michelle Rodemeyer enjoyed a 500-vote lead over the next candidate with all of the Cole County precincts counted and only Callaway County precincts remaining. Rodemeyer also took the most votes in Holts Summit, inside and just outside the city limits.

Countywide, voters approved a capital improvement sales tax 4,842-1,391.

Rodemeyer wins Jefferson City Board of Education seat

A Holts Summit candidate has won a seat on the Jefferson City Board of Education with two-thirds of precincts counted,

Michelle Rodemeyer, a first-time candidate from Holts Summit, had 1,970 out of 9,586 cast, with 18 of 24 precincts reporting. The next highest total was Cierra Griffin at 1,536.

The capital improvement sales tax was cruising to passage, 3,173-903, with 20 of 29 precincts counted.

Mackenzie Job held a commanding lead for reelection in Jefferson City's Ward 5, while Randy Hoselton held on against George Bacon in a tight race in Ward 1 in Jefferson City.

Boone County reports absentee ballot count

Boone County voters cast 1,524 absentee ballots in the April election, for a total of about 1.26% of the county's total 120,780 voters.

Among those voters, each of the three incumbent Columbia Board of Education members -- April Ferrao, John Lyman and Paul Harper -- earned more than 900 votes, compared to challenger Keary Husain's 422.

In the Southern Boone School District, absentee voters were overwhelmingly in favor of a large bond issue, while incumbents also led for the school board's three seats.

Callaway County, Cole County posts absentee ballot numbers

The Callaway County Clerk's Office posted absentee vote numbers about 15 minutes after the polls closed Tuesday, followed by Cole County about 15 minutes later.

Nearly 400 absentee ballots were cast, with 438 absentee votes cast in the Fulton Board of Education race. Connie Epperson and Emily Omohundro enjoyed large absentee tallies in that race, along with Joe Davis. Three seats are up for election.

On the county-wide ambulance use tax ballot question, 192 absentee ballots were marked yes compared to 131 "no" votes.

Cole County absentee voters cast 555 ballots out of nearly 55,000 registered voters. Michelle Rodemeyer and Cierra Griffin each received more than 200 votes.

Cole County absentee voters were also in favor of the county capital improvement sales tax.

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