Voters in The Colony replaced one City Council incumbent on Tuesday and left another hanging on by a handful of ballots, according to unofficial results posted early Wednesday by the Denton County Elections Administration.
All four single-member district seats were on the ballot for three-year terms. The county's results page carried an update time of 1:24 a.m.
Place 6
Matthew Wheeler defeated Joel Marks, the council's mayor pro tem, with 2,025 votes, or 62%, to Marks' 1,241, or 38%. Both men listed themselves as retired on the city's candidate filing list.
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The closest race in the city went to incumbent Perry Schrag by the slimmest of margins so far: 1,366 votes, or 50.13%, to 1,359, or 49.87%, for Matthew Michaelson, a general manager. That is a seven-vote gap out of 2,725 cast.
The county page listed four of the race's six precincts as reporting, the only one of the city's four contests not shown as fully counted.
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Incumbent Dan Rainey, a civil engineer, led a three-candidate field with 2,191 votes, or 48.28%. Dan McNew had 1,325, or 29.20%, and Tim Costello had 1,022, or 22.52%. Rainey's share is just under half of the 4,538 votes cast; the city's posted election information does not address runoffs.
