Matthew Will
Editor-In-Chief
Residents across Butler County voted in new leaders on Tuesday, with major races in the Butler Community College Board of Trustee races and the Andover Mayoral race.
In El Dorado, Butler employee Bill Young was elected mayor, running unopposed. You can read more about Young and his road to election day here.
In Andover, Ronnie Price took the mayoral race with a 111 vote win over Clark “CR” Nelson.
Across the county, a few other towns saw mayoral candidates running unopposed. This included Mike Rawlings in Augusta and Dean Schmidt in Potwin City.
Winning the three Andover City Council spots were Troy Tabor, Tim Berry and Shelby Carselowey.
Greggory Lewis ran unopposed and won the race for El Dorado City Commission Position 2. Kendra Wilkinson won the race for El Dorado City Commission Position 4, also running unopposed.
In El Dorado, Rob Lane, Haley Remsberg, Tom Storrer and Norman Wilks all won positions on the USD 490 school board.
In the first of three races for Butler Community College Board of Trustees, Julie Winslow defeated Ronals Engelbrecht for the District 1 spot. District 1 represents Andover, Benton, Towanda and Rose Hill.
In District 2, Shelby Smith defeated Eileen Dreiling by just over 100 votes. District 2 covers Augutsa, Douglass, Leon, Rosalia, Beaumont and Latham.
Forrest Rhodes Jr. won the District 3 vote, running unopposed. The At-Large Board of Trustee election found Mary Martha Good victorious over Jerry Maier.
Butler County voted 3,630-2,715 in favor of the state-wide constitutional amendment that, according to KWCH12’s election coverage website, would “end the adjustment to the U.S. Census for certain members of the military and college students for the purpose of re-drawing state legislative districts.” State-wide, Kansas agreed with Butler County, passing the amendment.”
The Lantern will break down the Board of Trustee results further in the coming days and inform our readers about the potential implications this has on Butler Community College.