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In one of the closest elections in recent memory, Tuscaloosa City Councilwoman Sonya McKinstry has lost her bid for a third term to represent District 7.
Unofficial results have McKinstry 25 votes short of challenger Cassius Lanier, a local businessman behind the Lanier Automotive Co., who earned 749 votes to McKinstry s 724.
Meanwhile, District 5 incumbent Kip Tyner earned his seventh term on the council by defeating challenger and University of Alabama student Sam Badger by a vote of 1,221 to 290.
District 2 incumbent Raevan Howard and Norman Crow, a former city Board of Education member who was vying for the City Council s District 3 seat, earned enough votes to win their council seats outright over multiple opponents.