City Council and School Board elections are over, but results could change because over 1500 mail-in-ballots were outstanding at noon on election day. Ballots must be postmarked by April 4th & received at the County Building by April 18th.
Leading Candidates, as of April 5th
These results may change. Scroll down for vote totals.
City Council - Lisa Gregory, Pat McDaniel, and Dennis Cooper are in the lead.
School Board - Bill Cleventer, Will Wetzel, and Mark Reynolds are in the lead.
County Auditor Proposition - The proposition to eliminate county auditor failed to pass. This means we will continue to have an elected Macon County Auditor.
Richland Trustees - Wayne Dunning and Benjamin Andreas are sure to be elected. Write-in candidates Marcy Rood and Anthony "Tony" Albertina compete for the third seat, and no vote counts are available for them as of yet.
Mayor, uncontested after two candidates were disqualified, will continue to be Julie Moore Wolfe.
Decatur Park Commissioner - Shelith Hansbro. This seat was uncontested.
Regional Office of Eduation #39 - There were 6 seats available, but no candidates.
Additional Coverage
For vote totals across the county, see Macon County Election Results or WAND's Vote Totals. You may also be interested in Past Elections, though they are not in a user-friendly format.
For additional coverage, see Herald & Review's city council coverage, their Decatur School Board coverage, and their Macon County coverage for other races.
For details about the candidates, see our 2023 Voter's Guide.
Vote Totals (April 5, 2023)
Again, these are not final, since over 1,500 mail-in-ballots are yet to be counted.
Results Questions
I contacted Josh Tanner on April 5th, with some questions about the results. He replied at 4:44pm the same day.
According to Josh Tanner, write-in votes (for Richland Trustees Marcy Rood and Tony Albertina) "must be hand counted and will not be available officially until April 18, 2023".
He says the City Council has 1,655 outstanding mail-in-ballots, DPS61 has 1,446 outstanding ballots, and the Auditor Question has 2,542 outstanding ballots.
5,180 ballots were mailed in 2022 & 555 were not returned. Tanner advised me to call late on Monday to see how many have been received, suggesting that ballots are unlikely to come back if not received in the first week.
I asked how many votes were cast for candidates who withdrew from the DPS61 race, Datrice Weathers and Jalynn Walker, and Tanner did not provide that information. He said he will "check with the state to see if those need to be reported at the final canvass."