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Breaking news: unofficial early voting totals released

by | May 4, 2019 | Latest

For preliminary early voting totals in the Murphy City Council race for May 4, the following results have been released as of 7 p.m.

For Murphy Councilmember Place 1, Elizabeth Abraham is in the lead with 471 votes (66.71%) while challenger Doug Davis has 235 votes (33.29%).

In Place 2, incumbent Jennifer Berthiaume has 435 votes (65.91 percent) while Gayathri Nagarajan has 225 votes (34.05 percent).

In Place 4, Ken Oltmann is in the lead with 401 votes (64.06 percent) while incumbent Betty Spraggins has 225 votes (35.94 percent).

For Place 6, Jene’ E. Butler has the most votes with 285 votes (45.60 percent) while challengers Jim Otto Jr. has 182 votes (29.12 percent) and Andrew Chase has 158 votes (25.28 percent).

Murphy’s proposition is passing with 466 votes in favor (67.15 percent) and 228 in opposition (32.85 percent).

For Collin College board of trustees, in Place 2, unopposed candidate Jay Saad has 21,593 votes (100 percent).

For Place 4, Greg Gomel is in the lead with 15,649 votes (63.56 percent) while challenger Buzz Kolbe has received 8,972 votes (36.44 percent).

In Place 5, unopposed candidate Raj Menon has 20,178 votes (100 percent).

For place 6, Stacy Anne Arias has 14,499 (53.55 percent) while Tim Chappell has 12,579 percent (46.45 percent).

Final election results will be posted once they become available, most likely after 10 p.m.

 

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