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Tupelo council incumbents ousted in primary runoffs Someone in Okolona voting in the April 27, 2021 municipal party primary runoffs (Alvin Ivy) Two members of the Tupelo City Council lost their bids for re-election Tuesday in municipal primary runoffs. Posted: Apr 27, 2021 9:38 PM Posted By: Craig Ford TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) Two members of the Tupelo City Council lost their bids for re-election Tuesday in municipal primary runoffs. Republican Janet Gaston defeated Ward 6 Councilman Mike Bryan with 60 percent of the vote. She will face Democrat Rasheeda Iyanda in the June general election. Democrat Rosie Jones beat Ward 7 Councilman Willie Jennings with 55 percent of the vote. Jones will replace Jennings on the City Council since all the candidates in that race ran as Democrats. ....
TUPELO ⢠A runoff election on Tuesday will see two incumbents on the ballot facing credible challengers, while a pair of newcomers vie for an open seat. Voters will be going to the polls in Ward 1, Ward 6 and Ward 7, with polls open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. All of these runoffs come after the April 6 primaries saw no candidates in these wards win more than 50% of the vote. Ward 1 With no incumbent in the race, Amanda Angle and Chad Mims are each hoping to win an open seat on the City Council, but only one of them can win the Republican primary runoff. ....
TUPELO â¢Â Three city council races are headed to runoffs, with challengers trying to oust incumbents in Ward 6 and Ward 7 and two fresh-faces to local politics vying for an open seat in Ward 1. In Ward 1, Amanda Angle and Chad Mims will meet in an April 27 runoff. Ward 6 Councilman Mike Bryan will face challenger Janet Gaston. Ward 7 Councilman Willie Jennings will face challenger Rosezlia âRosieâ Jones. After Republican primary results were tabulated, nearly-complete but still uncertified results showed that in Ward 1, Mims nearly won the four-person field outright with about 48% of the vote, while Angle captured about 38%. Of the other Ward 1 candidates, Eric Hampton had about 8% and Megan Kessler had about 4%. ....