Marion County Clerk Steve Fox says after the counting of late arriving vote by mail and absentee ballots it appears Tracy Crouch has won a seat on the Salem City Council by a single vote.
Fox says the final tally, still subject to the April 25th election canvas, is Crouch 194 votes and Jeff Baldridge 193 votes.
Crouch had been up two votes after all the votes were counted on election night. There was only one late-arriving ballot that included a vote for Salem City Council and Baldridge picked up a vote on that ballot.
Crouch was not immediately available for comment on her apparent victory.
Incumbent Councilman Craig Morton was the top vote-getter to win the other seat.
Fox says there were no additional write-in votes cast in the 34 late-arriving ballots.
As a result, Shawn Morris won the write-in contest with Kelli Jackson, 133 to 123 votes to claim the Salem Community High School board seat for which no candidate filed to be on the ballot.
At Odin School, Patrick Dagg won the two-year unexpired seat for which there was no candidate on the ballot with 31 write-in votes.
Former Selmaville Grade School Superintendent Robin Brooks finished with 162 write-in votes for a seat on the Selmaville Board, not enough to win a seat.
The other close race that remained undecided was for the second open seat on the Kaskaskia College Board between incumbent Jim Beasley and challenger Brian Brink. The final vote totals were not yet available from all the counties making up the district. On election night, Beasley was leading Brink by 28 votes. We’ll let you know the results of that race when they become available. Brian Holthaus won the other open seat.
