All precincts reporting / 25,146 total votes / Unofficial results / Precinct breakdown
- Mike Amyx Incumbent 5,564 votes 22.1%
- Aron Cromwell 3,982 votes 15.8%
- Lance Johnson 3,572 votes 14.2%
- Price Banks 3,413 votes 13.6%
- James Bush 3,241 votes 12.9%
- Gwen Klingenberg 2,470 votes 9.8%
- Dennis Constance 2,204 votes 8.8%
- Tom Johnson 700 votes 2.8%
Completed candidate chats
- Price Banks March 23 at 10:30 a.m. Read transcript
- James Bush March 24 at 2 p.m. Read transcript
- Lance Johnson March 26 at 1 p.m. Read transcript
- Aron Cromwell March 27 at 1 p.m. Read transcript
- Tom Johnson March 30 at 1 p.m. Read transcript
- Dennis Constance March 31 at 1:30 p.m. Read transcript
- City and school board election results now official
- April 10, 2009
- Tuesday’s election results are now official, and the addition of 70 provisional ballots did not change the outcomes of any Douglas County races.
- Voter turnout sluggish throughout city
- April 8, 2009
- After the final tally of election results flashed on the projector screen Tuesday in the Douglas County Courthouse, excitement soon died down when candidates and election watchers saw an ugly number. Voter turnout: 13.9 percent.
- KU polling location gets 0.2 percent turnout
- April 8, 2009
- At one polling place near Kansas University, Tuesday’s turnout was beyond slow. Out of about 2,000 registered voters in the precinct, no one showed up at Burge Union until 11:20 a.m., when Molly DesBaillets walked in the room. The polling place ended up with a 0.2 percent turnout.
- Election results unofficial until Friday
- April 8, 2009
- The election results are not official until the canvassing at 9 a.m. Friday at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass. County Commissioners Jim Flory and Nancy Thellman and Treasurer Paula Gilchrist will decide whether to count 77 provisional ballots.
- Young sidekick accompanies candidate until victory
- April 8, 2009
- Emma Johnson — the 8-year-old daughter of city commissioner-elect Lance Johnson — earned the privilege of staying up past her bedtime Tuesday night. Emma was with her father at the courthouse as Johnson waited for the final results. He said it’s fitting that his victory wasn’t assured until votes from the Langston Hughes School polling site were counted.
- Langston Hughes precinct reports 22 percent turnout
- April 8, 2009
- The Langston Hughes precinct results were the final ones election officials counted. Shew said the precinct was the busiest in the county with a 22 percent turnout. Poll workers faced a rush there just before the 7 p.m. closing time, so it took them longer to complete their job.
- Amyx, Cromwell and Johnson pick up seats on Lawrence City Commission
- April 7, 2009
- With perhaps the tightest city budget in recent memory looming, voters selected a familiar face in Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission election.
- Burge Union gets first voter about 11:30 a.m.
- April 7, 2009
- At one polling place in central Lawrence, turnout for Tuesday’s local elections was beyond a little slow.
- Amyx, Cromwell, Lance Johnson will be the next City Commissioners; Bradford, Sanburn, Byers elected to school board
- 10:29 a.m., April 7, 2009 Updated 09:40 p.m.
- Election workers have tallied advance ballots, and they show that incumbent Mike Amyx has a clear lead in the Lawrence City Commission race. In the Lawrence school board race, a tally of nearly all of the advance votes show Lawrence Douglas County Fire and Medical Chief Mark Bradford with a slight lead in the race, and he’s joined in the top three by Kansas University graduate student Vanessa Sanburn and Bob Byers, chairman of the district’s equity council.
- Polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today
- April 6, 2009
- Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday as voters throughout the area decide a host of city and school board races.
- Surveys show candidates’ stances on key issues
- Election set for Tuesday
- April 5, 2009
- Come Tuesday evening, it will all be over. Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday to select three people to serve on the Lawrence City Commission. Since late January, eight candidates have been vying for three spots by stumping at forums, neighborhood meetings and on front porch stoops.
- Advance voting still available today
- April 3, 2009
- By the end of Thursday, 294 people had cast in-person advance ballots at the Douglas County Courthouse, and 316 voters have returned mail-in ballots ahead of Tuesday’s city and school board elections, according to the county clerk’s office.
- Advance voting numbers remain low
- April 2, 2009
- Advance voting numbers for Tuesday’s general election have picked up some this week, but they’re still slow, leaving Douglas County election officials pessimistic about voter turnout. At the end of Wednesday, 257 people had cast advance ballots in person at the courthouse, and 290 voters had returned advance ballots by mail, according to the Douglas County Clerk’s Office.
- City commission candidates: Downtown is important to city
- April 1, 2009
- Everybody loves downtown. At a forum Wednesday morning sponsored by Downtown Lawrence Inc., all eight candidates for the Lawrence City Commission gushed about the importance of keeping downtown healthy.
- County elections clerk embracing social media to get out the vote
- April 1, 2009
- It was a short message Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew posted on Friday through the micro-blogging Web site, Twitter.
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