CULLMAN —
Polls in three local towns will open at 7 a.m. today for voters to decide mayor and council positions left unresolved following close races in the August municipal elections.
Colony, Garden City and West Point will each hold runoffs today. Residents of Colony and Garden City will elect their towns’ next mayors; Garden City and West Point will also elect one council member apiece.
Alabama races that field three or more candidates must be won by a margin of 50 percent, plus at least one additional vote. Races in which the top finisher doesn’t gain that majority must be decided in a runoff between the two candidates who gained the most votes.
At Colony, voters will choose between runoff mayoral candidates Patrick Ward and Donnis Leeth. Ward finished the August race slightly ahead of Leeth, taking 50 votes to Leeth’s 47. Both men currently serve on the Colony town council. Incumbent mayor Morris Fitts was voted out in August, finishing the race with 23 votes.
Incumbent Garden City mayor Harden Davis faces challenger Tim Eskew today for the town’s top elected seat. Eskew gained 59 votes to Davis’ 45 in the August 28 election, while Larry “Bird” Walker’s run for the mayor’s office ended with 14 votes.
The Place 5 council seat will also be decided in Garden City’s runoff. Place 5 incumbent Pat Chafin gained 45 votes in August, while challenger Teresa Martin Goodwin qualified for the runoff with 32 votes. In the August election, Chafin and Martin finished first and second in a four-way race that kept Place 5 candidates Bucky S. Martin and Frank Nall out of the runoff.
West Point voters will decide the town council’s Place 2 runoff race between Darion Daniel and Brad Smith. Daniel and Smith finished first and second in August, with Daniel taking 74 votes to Smith’s 59. Third-place candidate Shannon Mattox missed the runoff in August’s election, earning 30 votes.
The town halls at Colony, Garden City and West Point will serve as polling places for today’s local runoffs. Polls at all locations are open today from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Voting in the towns’ municipal runoff elections is open only to residents of each.
* Benjamin Bullard can be reached by e-mail at bbullard@cullmantimes.com or by telephone at 734-2131 ext. 270.
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