Monica Charles was elected to fill the District 4 seat on the St. Martinville City Council Saturday, beating incumbent Janise Anthony by 10 votes in a runoff election.
The City Council will feature three new members starting this month as Brad Horton (District 1) and George Choplin (District 2) also will join the council. Incumbents Mike Fuselier in District 1 and Carol Frederick in District 2 opted not to run for reelection on the May 25 ballot.
Horton won the District 1 council seat in May’s election while Choplin ran unopposed in District 2.
The three new council members will join incumbents Jonas Fontenette, who was reelected to the District 3 seat in May, and Flo Chatman, who ran unopposed in District 5. Incumbent Mayor Jason Willis also won reelection in May.
Charles received 114 votes, or 55 percent of the 208 votes cast on Saturday. Anthony received 94 votes, or 45 percent of the ballots cast. Both candidates were registered as Democrats.
The Louisiana Secretary of State’s office reported an unofficial turnout of 26.3 percent for the District 4 City Council race.
In the state Democrat Party runoff for U.S. Senate “Jamie” Davis won with 80 percent of the votes cast statewide (156,776 votes). Gary Crockett finished with 39,414 votes or 20 percent of the statewide ballots cast. Davis won in St. Martin Parish with 81 percent of the vote (1,185 votes) to Crockett’s 19 percent
Monica Charles
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(283 votes). In the Republican Party runoff for U.S. Senate, Julia Letlow captured 57 percent of the vote statewide to win the party’s nomination (179,971 votes). John Fleming claimed
43 percent of the vote
(136,567 votes).
Letlow carried St. Martin Parish with
2,034 votes (55 percent) to Fleming’s 1,637 votes
(45 percent).
