Troutman will have a new alderman on its board. Mooresville will have a new mayor and commissioner. And Harmony may have to flip a coin to see the final make-up of its governing body.
In Troutman, school teacher and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer Curt Rogers was the top vote-getter in a four-person race for the Board of Aldermen's two at-large seats that were up for grabs.
The other seat went to first-term incumbent Mike Spath.
Rogers' win knocked Alderman Scott Feimster off the board. Feimster was first appointed to the board in the spring of 2005 and won his race to keep the seat in November of that year.
Rogers, who said he was nursing a cold, did not sound overly excited about his win.
"I'm appreciative of the people of Troutman for electing me," Rogers said. "And I'll try to do the best I can when I take my place on the board."
Then he added, "But now I have to take some more medicine and get back to bed."
Spath said Rogers "came out of nowhere to win this thing."
Of his own campaign, Spath said he ran it about as inexpensively as a candidate can.
"I didn't spend any money at all," he said. "I ran on my record and talked to people and I guess they wanted me back. And I'm glad to be coming back or I wouldn't have run."
The final vote count in the Troutman election was: Rogers-110 votes; Spath-90 votes; Feimster-79 votes; and Charles Delnero-66 votes.
The Harmony Board of Alderman may get a new member and it may come down to the flip of a coin or a name drawn from a hat.
The board's four at-large incumbent members ran unopposed but a write-in campaign staged by Eddie Gaither resulted in his tying fourth-place finisher Carolyn Moore with 26 votes each.
Town statutes call for tie votes to be decided by lot, which, according to Iredell County Board of Elections Director Becky Galliher, likely means either calling heads or tails or a name-drawing.
Either way, Galliher said, "This was an interesting election."
In Love Valley, all five incumbents on the town's Board of Commissioners won re-election, as did longtime mayor and town founder Andy Barker, who ran unopposed.
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