Municipal Election Results - May 12th, 2012 - Lewisville, Flower Mound, LISD

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Posted by WhosPlayin on 2012/5/11 21:10:00 (3322 reads)

In Lewisville, Mayor Dean Ueckert kept his seat with a 71% victory over challenger Winston Edmondson. In the City Council Place 2 race, Neil Ferguson defeated 3rd-time candidate Steve Hill by 55% - 45%. Turnout was 1,985, with just over half of that in early voting.

In the Lewisville ISD race, former Trustee Kathy Duke achieved 62% in a 4-way race where only a plurality was needed to win. Paige Shoven made a strong showing with 24%, followed by June Ehinger with 9% and Tracee Ali with 5%. Trisha Sheffield pulled off an upset by defeating incumbent Vernell Gregg in the Place 2 race. Sheffield got 52% of the vote, Gregg had 40%, and Cornel Bekker got 7.86%.

In Highland Village, Pat Davis squeaked out a 51% - 49% victory over Bill Irwin in the Mayor's race.

In Flower Mound, the "NFL" team of Mayor Melissa Northern, Councilman Al Filidoro, and Councilman Steve Lyda were swept out by wide margins in a complete pendulum swing from 2010 when the trio ran on a platform of protecting Flower Mound from urban drilling too close to homes. This year economic development seemed to be the issue. Councilman Tom Hayden beat Mayor Northern by 64.5% - 34.4% in heavy turnout with 5,734 votes cast in that race - almost triple the turnout of neighboring Lewisville. Alan Cloud got just over 1% in that race. Bryan Webb beat Filidoro by 63.7% - 36.3%, and Steve Dixon beat Lyda 61% - 35%, with Jay Cannon garnering just under 4%.

Charter propositions passing: 1,2,3,4,5,9,10,11,12
Charter propositions failing: 6,7,8

The charter propositions that passed passed by wide margins in the 70-80% range. Those that failed failed just barely, with 1 - 4% margins. All of those that failed had to do with removing antiquated language that would allow either 15% of registered voters or 300 (whichever is higher) to submit a valid petition for referendum. Flower Mound's population is so large now that 300 would never be higher than 15%. Nonetheless, voters wanted to keep that language in the charter.

The Lewisville Texan Journal thanks the Cross Timbers Gazette for joining us in election night coverage of these races. We set an all-time record for page views here on Lewisville Texan Journal, with 28,192.

Full results below:

For results from Denton ISD, Argyle, Bartonville, and Lantana, visit Cross Timbers Gazette's election results page.

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Anonymous	Posted: 2012/5/12 16:13 Updated: 2012/5/12 17:26
	Re: Municipal Election Results - May 12th, 2012 - Lewisvi... Congrats on your narrow victory over that damned purple bird, Steve.

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Anonymous	Posted: 2012/5/12 17:41 Updated: 2012/5/12 19:28
	Re: Municipal Election Results - May 12th, 2012 - Lewisvi... Darn, spoke too soon. We're stuck with the bird.

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DCDiva	Posted: 2012/5/12 18:56 Updated: 2012/5/12 18:56
Joined: 2012/5/10 From: Posts: 17	Re: Municipal Election Results - May 12th, 2012 - Lewisvi... but i think more than a few of us were hoping the purple bird would win!

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WhosPlayin	Posted: 2012/5/12 19:38 Updated: 2012/5/12 19:38
Editor Joined: 2008/12/12 From: Posts: 3559 Online!	Re: Municipal Election Results - May 12th, 2012 - Lewisvi... Darnit, they forgot to put my Mascot race on the ballot AGAIN!!! Where's the Justice Department when you need them?

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WhosPlayin	Posted: 2012/5/12 18:01 Updated: 2012/5/12 18:01
Editor Joined: 2008/12/12 From: Posts: 3559 Online!	Our predictions OK, standard warning applies: Don't let our predictions determine whether you go vote or not. Don't take anything for granted. That said, here's what Brandon and I predict: (Under-votes not included in percentages) Brandon Says: Total Lewisville Voters: 1702 Lewisville Mayor: - Ueckert: 1242 (73.8%) - Edmondson: 442 (26.2%) - Undervote: 18 Place 2 Council: - Ferguson: 1004 (59.8%) - Hill: 675 (40.2%) - Undervote: 23 Steve Says: Total Lewisville Voters: 1959 Lewisville Mayor: - Ueckert: 1423 (73.0%) - Edmondson: 526 (27.0%) - Undervote: 10 Place 2 Council: - Ferguson: 1160 (60%) - Hill: 774 (40%) - Undervote: 25 I'll take +/- 5% on my picks. We're pretty close, so we'll either both be right, or both be wrong. Here's the last match-up between Ueckert and Edmondson. Here's the last match-up between Ferguson and Hill.

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WhosPlayin	Posted: 2012/5/13 11:24 Updated: 2012/5/13 11:24
Editor Joined: 2008/12/12 From: Posts: 3559 Online!	Re: Our predictions So how did we do? Well, we were both within our 5% on both races. We were much closer on the mayoral race. Actual percentage for Ueckert was 71.23%. Brandon said 73.8%, and I said 73.0%, so he was off by 2.6 points, and I was off by 1.8 points. We both under-estimated Steve Hill against Neil Ferguson. Brandon said Ferguson would get 59.8%, and I said 60.0%. Actual was 55.28%. So we're barely within the 5% margin. As far as our polls on this race, although the percentages were exaggerated compared to the actual margins for Lewisville, every single one of our polls correctly predicted the winner. The Flower Mound polls were particularly accurate.

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Anonymous	Posted: 2012/5/13 14:16 Updated: 2012/5/13 15:31
	Re: Our predictions Barely 2000 voters turned out in Lewisville? Pathetic...

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Anonymous	Posted: 2012/5/12 18:21 Updated: 2012/5/12 19:02
	Re: Municipal Election Results - May 12th, 2012 - Lewisvi... Early voting results are posted on the Denton County elections website. They are: Ueckert 73% Edmondson 27% Ferguson 56% Hill 44% Duke 62% Shoven 24% Ehlinger 9% Ali 5% Sheffield 54% Gregg 39% Bekker 8%

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WhosPlayin	Posted: 2012/5/12 19:27 Updated: 2012/5/12 19:27
Editor Joined: 2008/12/12 From: Posts: 3559 Online!	We Predict Dean Ueckert Wins With 73% in early voting, Dean Ueckert has what we think is an insurmountable lead.

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WhosPlayin	Posted: 2012/5/12 21:22 Updated: 2012/5/12 21:22
Editor Joined: 2008/12/12 From: Posts: 3559 Online!	Other calls Results are coming in slowly, but here are our calls for right now: Lewisville Council Place 2: Ferguson with 55% - candidate has already gotten unofficial word. Lewisville Mayor: Dean Ueckert with 71% - candidate has already gotten unofficial word. Lewisville ISD: Place 1: Kathy Duke - pretty hard to overcome her lead for a plurality. Place 2: Sheffield for the same reason. Gregg has served well. Thanks!

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Anonymous	Posted: 2012/5/14 16:40 Updated: 2012/5/14 16:55
	Re: Other calls Congrats to all the winners across the area. Now for true voter fatigue with another two weeks of early voting for the primaries.

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Anonymous	Posted: 2012/5/14 19:21 Updated: 2012/5/14 19:55
	Re: Other calls Seems winds of change are blowing. Wonder if that spreads to the primaries?

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