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The final pieces of the election puzzle are falling into place after local cities canvassed the election results and reviewed how many votes write-in candidates received. The results showed that candidates who were written in will fill several seats for which no one ran and one seat for which a write-in candidate had more votes than a candidate who filed.
In Holland, incumbent Mayor Kent Woelber received 30 votes and write-in candidates received 52 votes. Woelber said he retained his seat as mayor. On the Holland City Council, there were two seats up for election and incumbent Joel Jacoby was the only one who filed. Jacoby received 26 votes and there were 124 write-in votes. Woelber said Rod Buffington and Cindy DeZeeuw were elected to fill the two council seats.
In Trosky, no one filed for a special election for city clerk and there were 11 write-in votes. Mayor Ron Klumper said Dennis Morphew was elected clerk. Morphew is a city council member now and has been acting clerk since the previous clerk left, according to Klumper. Now that he’s been elected clerk, there is a vacancy on the council that will be filled by appointment.
In Woodstock, there were two open council seats, no one filed and there were 42 write-in votes. Mayor Austin Kruisselbrink said current council member Tyler Soyer and Alex Matos received the most write-in votes and would be offered the positions.
In Ihlen, no one filed for mayor and there were eight write-in votes. City Clerk Melissa Waite said Austin Bainbridge was elected mayor.
Write-in candidates who received the most votes and accepted the positions to which they were elected will take office in January like other elected officials.