Four members of the Murphy City Council have apparently been re-elected, according to final unofficial returns from the Saturday, May 3, general election. Results are not official until canvassed by council.

With results complete from all voting centers, Collin County Elections reported Place 1 Councilmember Elizabeth Abraham had 2,068 votes, or 68.61%, to 946 votes, or 31.39% for Nadeem A. Khan.

In other races, Place 4 Councilmember Ken Oltmann received 1,940 votes, or 76.41%, to 599 votes (23.59%) for his opponent, Chris Stout.

Place 6 Councilmember Jené Butler, the city’s mayor pro tem, received 2,338 votes, or 78.61% of the total, to 636 votes (21.39%) for challenger Qasim Rasul.

Place 2 Councilmember W. Scott Smith was unopposed for re-election and received 1,875 votes.

Members of the Murphy City Council are elected at-large and represent all residents.

Murphy voters in the Plano Independent School District also voted for four at-large candidates who will serve four-year terms on the school board.

Two incumbents were re-elected. Place 1 Trustee Lauren Tyra ran unopposed and received 17,008 votes. Collin County Elections reported Place 3 Trustee Nancy C. Humphrey received 16,296 votes, 71.22%, to 6,584 votes, 28.78%, for Harper Weaver.

In Place 2, Sam Johnson had 19,230 votes, or 85.86%, to Xiomar Pierre’s, 3,167 votes, or 14.14%, and Place 6 candidate Elisa Klein had 13,310 votes, 56.80%, to 7,119 votes, 30.38% for Dash Weerasinghe and 3,005 votes, or 12.82%, for Andrew Rettke.

Results are not final until canvassed by the Plano ISD Board of Trustees.

Three of the nine seats on the Collin College Board of Trustees were open. Collin County Elections said Staci L. Weaver had 37,166 votes, or 58.20%, for Place 4, previously occupied by Trustee Greg Gomel. Tamara Thomas had 26,694 votes, or 41.80%.

Place 5 Trustee Raj Menon was unopposed and received 45,680 votes.

Place 6 incumbent Stacy Arias filed for reelection but withdrew from the race, leaving Justin Adcock unopposed. He received 45,828 votes.

Results are not final until canvassed by the Collin College Board of Trustees.

Collin County Elections said 740,482 voters were registered in the county, but just under 11% turned out for a total of 81,258 ballots cast. Early voting accounted for 53,399 votes and 26,857 voters went to the polls on Election Day, Collin County Elections said.

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