Final unofficial results are in for the Wyandotte County elections, with Rose Mulvany Henry winning the BPU at-large, position 3, and Christian Ramirez winning the Unified Government Commission, 3rd District seat.
These unofficial results may not include any mail-in ballots that are currently in the mail and that have until later this week to reach the election office.
There were 13,934 ballots cast, a 16.45 percent turnout, according to the election office results.
Two state legislators who came in first in the primary elections for BPU seats came in second tonight.
In a very close contest, UG Commissioner Ann Murguia received 605 votes to Christian Ramirez’s 717 votes.
In another close contest, the Board of Public Utilities, at large position 3 contest, Rose Mulvany Henry won 6,026 to David Haley’s 5,982. Haley is a state senator.
For the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education, the top vote-getter was Randy Lopez with 3,798, followed by Yolanda S. Clark with 3,347, Valdenia C. Winn with 2,810 and Janey Humphries with 2,804. The top four are elected.
In the Board of Public Utilities, 1st District, Robert “Bob” Milan was the winner with 2,091 votes to LaRon Thompson’s 1,910 votes.
In BPU, 3rd District, incumbent Jeff Bryant hung on to his seat with 1,661 votes to challenger Stan Frownfelter’s 1,296 votes. Frownfelter is a state legislator.
The top four vote-getters for the KCKCC Board of Trustees were Rosalyn Brown, 7,185; Patricia L. Brune, 6,830; Donald Ash, 6,724; and Ray Daniels, 6,469.
Incumbent Unified Government Commissioner Melissa Brune Bynum had 66.7 percent of the vote, winning re-election over Mark Gilstrap, a former state senator, with a vote of 8,834 to 4,355.
In the UG Commission, 4th District, incumbent Commissioner Harold Johnson won with 67.8 percent of the vote, 889 to Jorge Flores’ 416 votes.
Commissioner Angela Markley won re-election to the 6th District, with a vote of 909 to Diana Aguirre’s 501.
For register of deeds, Nancy Burns received 10,853 votes to challenger Tscher Manck’s 2,106.
In Bonner Springs, Jeff Harrington was re-elected mayor with 694 votes to Jordan Mackey’s 232.
Advancing in the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Board of Education contest were Jennifer McConico, 842 votes; David J. Pierce, 831; Ashley Razak, 742; and John H. Claxton, 677.
UG Commissioner Brian McKiernan, who was unopposed, also was re-elected.
Wyandotte Countians voted 59.8 percent to approve a constitutional amendment on the ballot, with 6,927 yes votes and 4,652 no votes. This issue was on ballots statewide. The amendment will allow the state to count students and military service members in the census; currently, some of them are not counted as residents of the state. Many other states already count students and service members as residents for the census.
For more vote totals, visit http://www.wycovotes.org/ under “results.” (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56606b47e4b0b9403ad6ff96/t/5dc24d3767488341e24179c3/1573014839257/2019+General+Election+%28Final+Unofficial+Resuts%29.pdf )
