Elgin council: three contested seats
$183.7M Bastrop school bond, council seats to be decided
For Bastrop County election results and vote count totals, please visit our election results page.
Gibson, Maldonado, Callahan elected to Elgin City Council
Three seats were up for grabs in the Elgin City Council with Arthur Gibson III, Skyler Maldonado and Matthew Callahan winning those elections, according to the unofficial results Saturday night.
In the race for one of the Ward 1 positions, Arthur Gibson III defeated Sarah Gudenkauf. Gibson received 66 votes compared to Gudenkauf s 47.
Gibson, a third-generation resident of Ward 1, unsuccessfully ran for election to a Ward 1 seat in November against Elgin Mayor Pro Tem Jessica Bega.
Incumbent Bastrop school board member Kellye Seekatz and challenger Joseph B. Thompson faced off in a candidate forum Monday night and discussed their priorities for the district over the next four years.
The Place 2 race is the only contested school board seat in the May 1 election. Rick Rivera, who is running for the Place 1 seat, is running unopposed. Rivera was appointed to the Place 1 seat in January to replace James Allen, who resigned in December after accepting a job in Arkansas.
During the hour-long candidate forum Monday, Seekatz and Thompson discussed a wide range of school district-related issues including improvement plans, the $183.7 million school bond proposal also on the ballot and priority issues over the next four years.
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