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Tobias ousts Leake for Haymarket Town Council seat
While five out of six Haymarket Town Council incumbents won two-year terms Tuesday night along with the mayor, former council member Jay Tobias ousted current member David Leake by three votes to claim the sixth and final slot for the 2010-2012 council.
Tobias roughly doubled his vote total from the 2008 election after losing a re-election bid in 2006. His losses came largely due to a public feud he had at the time with Haymarket police chief James Roop.
Council member Bob Weir led the incumbents with 89 votes, gaining 14 votes from his 2008 campaign. Vice mayor John Cole and councilor Susan Edwards finished second and third place respectively, receiving 85 and 84 votes. That just so happens to be their same tallies as 2008, only with Cole out in front this time.
Appointed council members Milt Kenworthy and Mary Lou Scarbrough won full terms of their own by finishing tied for fourth place with 82 votes each. Tobias's 72 votes topped Leake's 69. Leake won the sixth and final spot during the 2008 election with 60 votes while Tobias finished last.
Ellie Cole, wife of the council member John Cole, had 22 votes despite dropping out of the race. Town residents gave write in candidates 90 votes. Former council members Shelia Jarboe and Natasha Sikorsky, neither of whom actively ran or campaigned for their old jobs, received the lion's share of those votes.
Mayor Pamela Stutz ran unopposed and won 67 percent of the total (86 votes). A strong presence by planning commissioner Linda Landwehr, who, like Jarboe and Sikorsky, did not actively compaign for the job, helped bring in 42 write in votes, 11 more write-ins than in 2008. Stutz received seven fewer votes this time around.


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