VALDOSTA —
Hahira will officially have a new mayor come the New Year.
Lowndes County Board of Elections certified votes Friday with no real changes from results tallied Tuesday from Election Day and three weeks of early voting.
Though considered too close to call Tuesday night, Hahira mayoral candidate Bruce Cain kept his slim five-vote lead over contender Rose Adams, with 168-163 votes. Cain will become Hahira’s new mayor in January, with incumbent Mayor Wayne Bullard receiving only 65 votes.
Of the county’s 48,434 registered voters, 7,846 cast ballots, which is 16.2 percent of registered voters casting ballots in the election that chose new municipal officers in Lowndes County cities and countywide approved the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) VII.
THE RESULTS
Valdosta City Council
District 2
Calvin Graham Sr.: 137
John Hogan: 75
Sandra J. Tooley: 198 WINNER
Valdosta City Council
District 4
Junior S. Jackson: 129
Incumbent Alvin Payton Jr.: 291 WINNER
Valdosta City Council District 6
Richard S. Miller: 386
Joseph Wheeler: 49
Incumbent Robert Yost: 474 WINNER
Valdosta School Board District 1
Lizzie Shumphard: 249 WINNER
Edgar Cornelius Tooley: 157
Valdosta School Board District 2
Incumbent Vanassa Flucas: 283 WINNER
James L. Nelson: 104
Valdosta School Board District 3
Incumbent Warren Lee: 209
Hahira Mayor
Rose Adams: 163
Incumbent Wayne Bullard: 65
Bruce Cain: 168 WINNER
Johnny L. Stalvey: 37
Hahira City Council District 1
Incumbent Terry C. Benjamin: 91
Hahira City Council District 4
H. Mason Barfield: 109
Hahira City Council District 2
Kenneth Davis: 111 WINNER
Traci Selph Davis: 19
Lake Park Mayor
Incumbent Eric Schindler: 104
Lake Park City Council, with four at-large seats
Ronald Carter: 97 WINNER
Paul Mulkey: 71 WINNER
Bert P. Rutland Sr.: 88 WINNER
Incumbent Sandy Sherrill: 81 WINNER
Incumbent David R. Whitfield: 70
SPLOST VII
Yes: 5,439 WINNER
No: 2,332
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Hahira will officially have a new mayor come the New Year.
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Election results certified
Cain becomes Hahira mayor by five votes
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