Vote turnout was brisk Tuesday morning in Summit, where a hotly contested mayor’s race was drawing people to the polls.
Polls are open until 7 p.m. Tuesday in most Mississippi cities that were holding contested elections.
In Summit, Mayor Percy Robinson was facing his first challenge in his nearly 20 years in that office from Councilman Chris Daniels.
Running for town council seats are Daniel’s brother Keyon Daniels, DaJuan Hodges, Pauline Monley, Julius Nash, Marcus Pittman and Katherine Nicole Thompson.
Monley, Nash and Pittman are all seeking re-election.
The top four finishers will be elected to a four-year term that begins in July.
In Tylertown, incumbent Edward Hughes will face Jasper Howard in the mayoral election.
For the alderman-at-large seat, Mary Lib Duncan is facing Kyle Johnson. Incumbent Doug Walker will face Chelcy Naquin and Douglas “Scott” Barnum in Ward 1. Stormy Jefferson in Ward 2 and Fred Lambert in Ward 3 are uncontested. In Ward 4, incumbent Frederick Magee Jr. is running against Joseph “Jed” Jefferson.
The Liberty mayoral race will be between John T. Morgan III and Greg T. Walsh, a current alderman, with the winner replacing Pat Talbert, who is not seeking re-election.
Incumbent aldermen Joshua D. Gurney, Lenora Nunnery Morgan, Curtis E. Seay and John D. Shivers are seeking reelection, and Lisa Bateman, Charlotte “Cissy” Williams Canova and Maxim Gerald Miller also are running for aldermen seats. Voters will select five candidates from the field of seven.
In Gloster, Mayor Jerry Wayne Norwood is seeking a third term and faces challengers Debbie Parsons Gunion and Patricia Trenease McGhee.
In the alderman races, all of the incumbents have served eight years as alderman, and Inez Bell in Ward 3 is the only incumbent who is not contested.
In Ward 1, incumbent Betty Green is facing challenger Amanda Rena Thompson.
In Ward 3, incumbent Michael McClain is challenged by Naketta Veals.
In Ward 4, incumbent Patricia Monroe is facing Woran Griffin.
McComb’s elections will be held next year. Magnolia’s contested races were decided in the April Democratic primary. Osyka’s elections became moot when Mayor Allen Applewhite dropped his re-election bid, essentially handing the seat to challenger Jamie Harrell, a former mayor. The town’s aldermen were all unopposed.
