The Pulaski County Election Commission met Wednesday night and approved the provisional ballots from last week’s general election.
Most importantly, for Maumelle at least, is there that will be a runoff in the Ward 1, Post. 1 race between Lj Wesley and Barry Brown,
Wesley, above, led the three-way race with 1,172 total votes, or 42.29 percent of the vote, while Brown, below, garnered 683 votes, or 24.64 percent, Wesley had to win with at least 40 percent of the vote, while also defeating the second place finisher by at least 20 percent.
Wesley didn’t get that done as the margin of victory was 17.65. Third place finisher Michael Chastain received 591 votes or 21;3 percent.
In Election Night returns, Wesley got 1,153 votes out of 2,410 ballots cast to claim 42.19 percent of the vote.
Brown and Chastain almost split the remainder with Brown getting 672 votes, or 24.59 percent, and Chastain getting 585 votes or 21.40.
Election results
Barry Brown: 683 24.64%
L J Wesley 1,172 42.28%
Michael Chastain 591 21.32%
Total Votes Cast 2,446 88.24%
Contest Totals 2,772 100.00%
There ended up being 36 absentee ballots counted with Wesley getting 19 votes there, while Brown got 11 and Chastain finished with six. The race saw 326 undervotes across the four precincts that decided the race, or more than enough to have had a decisive winner.
Undervotes also matter because they can change the dynamics in a runoff with the 40/20 to win.
And while this math doesn’t matter, it is interesting to note that just counting actual votes for the candidates, Wesley won the race with 47.91 while Brown got 27.92 percent of the vote, for the margin to be 19.99 and still not over the 20 percent threshold.
Early voting will begin Monday, Nov. 26 with the runoff election being held Tuesday, Dec. 3. You will note that early voting is the same week as Thanksgiving this year and polling locations, and voting days to work around the holiday are still being finalized.
If the past is precedent, there won't be early voting on Thursday and Friday that week, with local early voting on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with Monday also being a day for early voting but only at the Election Commission building in downtown Little Rock.
Precinct by precinct voting follows. The key to the numbers is: TOTAL VOTE % Election Day Early vote Absentee Provisional
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The Pulaski County Election Commission met Wednesday night and approved the provisional ballots from last week’s general election.
Most importantly, for Maumelle at least, is there that will be a runoff in the Ward 1, Post. 1 race between Lj Wesley and Barry Brown,
Wesley, above, led the three-way race with 1,172 total votes, or 42.29 percent of the vote, while Brown, below, garnered 683 votes, or 24.64 percent, Wesley had to win with at least 40 percent of the vote, while also defeating the second place finisher by at least 20 percent.
Wesley didn’t get that done as the margin of victory was 17.65. Third place finisher Michael Chastain received 591 votes or 21;3 percent.
In Election Night returns, Wesley got 1,153 votes out of 2,410 ballots cast to claim 42.19 percent of the vote.
Brown and Chastain almost split the remainder with Brown getting 672 votes, or 24.59 percent, and Chastain getting 585 votes or 21.40.
Election results
Barry Brown: 683 24.64%
L J Wesley 1,172 42.28%
Michael Chastain 591 21.32%
Total Votes Cast 2,446 88.24%
Contest Totals 2,772 100.00%
There ended up being 36 absentee ballots counted with Wesley getting 19 votes there, while Brown got 11 and Chastain finished with six. The race saw 326 undervotes across the four precincts that decided the race, or more than enough to have had a decisive winner.
Undervotes also matter because they can change the dynamics in a runoff with the 40/20 to win.
And while this math doesn’t matter, it is interesting to note that just counting actual votes for the candidates, Wesley won the race with 47.91 while Brown got 27.92 percent of the vote, for the margin to be 19.99 and still not over the 20 percent threshold.
Early voting will begin Monday, Nov. 26 with the runoff election being held Tuesday, Dec. 3. You will note that early voting is the same week as Thanksgiving this year and polling locations, and voting days to work around the holiday are still being finalized.
If the past is precedent, there won't be early voting on Thursday and Friday that week, with local early voting on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday with Monday also being a day for early voting but only at the Election Commission building in downtown Little Rock.
Precinct by precinct voting follows. The key to the numbers is: TOTAL VOTE % Election Day Early vote Absentee Provisional
Precinct 5
Barry Brown 483 26.61% 71 408 4 0
L J Wesley 718 39.56% 133 575 10 0
Michael Chastain 407 22.42% 62 342 3 0
Total Votes Cast 1,608 88.60% 266 1,325 17 0
Contest Totals 1,815 100.00% 290 1,507 18 0
Precinct 8
Barry Brown 127 19.97% 24 98 5 0
L J Wesley 318 50.00% 39 271 8 0
Michael Chastain 121 19.03% 19 100 2 0
Total Votes Cast 566 88.99% 82 469 15 0
Contest Totals 636 100.00% 86 534 16 0
Precinct 9
Barry Brown 32 18.18% 7 25 0 0
L J Wesley 83 47.16% 10 72 1 0
Michael Chastain 43 24.43% 8 35 0 0
Total Votes Cast 158 89.77% 25 132 1 0
Contest Totals 176 100.00% 29 145 2 0
Precinct 10
Barry Brown 41 28.28% 9 30 2 0
L J Wesley 53 36.55% 10 43 0 0
Michael Chastain 20 13.79% 3 16 1 0
Total Votes Cast 114 78.62% 22 89 3 0
Contest Totals 145 100.00% 28 114 3 0
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