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Election Results

Filed under: Education, Schools & Family, Forney News, Government & Politics — Josh at 5:09 am on Sunday, May 13, 2007

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No word if this is final, and I’m sure there’s still some mail-in, provisional, etc. ballots to be counted, but the current counts from the county are:

FISD Proposition 1 - Second High School
For: 1,520 (60.10%)
Against: 1,009 (39.90%)

Mayor
Grooms: 762 (60.00%)
Weatherford: 508 (40.00%)

(All city council positions are unopposed, so in the sake of posting this as quickly as possible, I’m skipping those…)

FISD School Board Trustee (3 seats up for election; top 3 take the seats)
Bell: 1,216
Taylor: 1,116
Walker: 981
Johnson: 590
Andrews: 589
Carroll: 424
Morrow: 401

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Election Results Update

Filed under: Government & Politics — Josh at 10:18 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2007

With almost 2,100 votes counted (no word yet if this is final, but over 4,000 votes were cast in the election last November, although I’m sure turnout for this election was smaller, as May elections tend to be), the numbers are:

FISD Proposition 1 - Second High School
For: 1243 (60%)
Against: 844 (40%)

Mayor
Grooms: 690
Weatherford: 416

(All city council positions are unopposed, so in the sake of posting this as quickly as possible, I’m skipping those…)

FISD School Board Trustee (3 seats up for election; top 3 take the seats)
Bell: 1,038
Taylor: 953
Walker: 849
Andrews: 507
Johnson: 461
Carroll: 371
Morrow: 316

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Early Election Numbers

Filed under: Government & Politics — Josh at 8:04 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2007

Well, the polls have been closed for about 2 hours and the county has started tallying the votes. I’ll post updates throughout the evening as I can, but right now, with almost 1,490 votes counted, the numbers are:

FISD Proposition 1 - Second High School
For: 886 (60.81%)
Against: 571 (39.19%)

Mayor
Grooms: 488 (67.50%)
Weatherford: 235 (32.50%)

(All city council positions are unopposed, so in the sake of posting this as quickly as possible, I’m skipping those…)

FISD School Board Trustee (3 seats up for election; top 3 take the seats)
Bell: 762
Taylor: 678
Walker: 611
Andrews: 349
Johnson: 319
Morrow: 223
Carroll: 222

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