MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Early voting totals leading up to Tuesday’s municipal election in Morgantown nearly equaled the total voter turnout for the 2015 city election.
According to Morgantown City Clerk Linda Tucker, 1,188 voters took advantage of the early voting period that concluded on Saturday. The total voter turnout for the 2015 city election was just 1,521 voters out of 17,107 registered voters in the city. In that election, three of the four seats on council were uncontested.
Interest in this year’s election has been heightened with all seven races being contested.
“I am very pleased with the turnout. People have been really pleased with the iVos (Election Systems and Software iVotronic machines) and we’ve had a really good reaction,” Tucker remarked.
Of the city’s seven wards, two will certainly have a new representative.
Fifth ward councilwoman and current mayor Marti Shamberger and councilwoman Nancy Ganz in the seventh ward are not seeking re-election.
Kyle McAvoy and Ron Dulaney are running to represent the fifth ward.
Bill Graham and Barry Wendell are running to represent the seventh ward.
Incumbents Ron Bane (first ward), Bill Kawecki (second ward), Wes Nugent (third ward), Jenny Selin (fourth ward) and Jay Redmond (sixth ward) are the ballot challenged by Rachel Fetty, Al Bonner, Ryan Wallace, Eldon Callen and Mark Brazaitis.
(Listen to each candidate interview on WAJR’s Morgantown AM.)
“Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. We have 9 precincts: South Side Fire Station, two at Morgantown High School, two at BOPARC Senior Community Center, Northside Fire Station, First Presbyterian Church, Sabraton Baptist Church and Suncrest United Methodist Church,” listed Tucker.
For questions about precincts on Election Day, call 304-284-7439 or 304-284-7434 for questions about precincts.
City election information, including an interactive map of polling locations, is online.