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Election roundup

Robert C. Reed | Hickory Daily Record

Ruth Harkey casts her vote at Precinct 39 at Neill Clark Recreation Center. Voter turnout among Hickory’s precincts was low Tuesday morning.

From staff reports

Published: November 4, 2009

HICKORY -

Claremont councilman to take mayor's seat

Claremont -- Claremont voters put Councilman David Morrow into the mayor's seat Tuesday with 184 votes. Morrow, who ran unopposed, will take the place of Mayor Glenn Morrison.

Shawn R. Brown won his seat on the Claremont Council with 180 votes.

Tim Lowrance will return after garnering 160 votes.

Both men ran unopposed.

Write-in candidates got nearly 16 percent of the Claremont mayor votes and 13 percent of the Claremont council votes.

Close race for Catawba Town Council

CATAWBA -- A close race decided the Catawba Town Council seats Tuesday.

Top vote getters were Jeffrey W. Hendren, a returning council member with 120 votes, and Robin Kale Robinson with 125.

They beat out J.T. Rufty, who got 94 votes.

Sixty-one people cast write-in votes for Catawba Town Council.

With 205 ballots cast, the town had voter turnout of nearly 40 percent, an anomaly when compared to the other one-precinct towns, Long View and Brookford, with 5 and 7 percent respectively.

Voter turnout around 7 percent in Brookford

BROOKFORD -- Brookford voters cast fewer than 60 ballots Tuesday in the unopposed election for mayor and alderman seats.

Incumbent Mayor Thomas Schronce garnered 36 votes, 100 percent of all those cast
Incumbent aldermen Randy Beam and Lloyd Fox faced no challengers and won their seats with 31 and 33 votes, respectively.

Voter turnout was around 7 percent.

Incumbents return to office in Long View

Long View -- Long View voters cast 159 votes to return Mayor Norman E. Cook and Aldermen John Harold McDaris Sr. and Kenneth E. Bumgarner to office Tuesday.

Cook received 127 votes. Seven people cast ballots for write-in candidates in the Long View mayoral race.

McDaris received 18 votes while Bumgarner received 36.

Voter turnout was slightly more than 5 percent.

Maiden re-elects mayor, 2 councilmen

Maiden -- Maiden voters re-elected the town's mayor and two councilmen, and named a new representative to the council Tuesday.

Mayor Robert "Bob" Smyre ran unopposed and got 317, or 94 percent, of the votes.

Voters re-elected Howard Ervin and Marcus Midgett but replaced councilman Mike Moore with Fore Rembert, who received 232 votes to Moore's 161. Wayne McKinney, who also challenged incumbents for a seat on the council, came in fifth with 68 votes.

Maiden's voter turnout was unclear from Catawba County Board of Elections reports Tuesday night.

NOTE: Numbers reported by the Catawba County Board of Elections on Tuesday night are unofficial.