Local Election Results
Posted/updated on: November 5, 2015 at 2:23 am
EAST TEXAS — The polls were busy around East Texas Tuesday on a number of fronts. Smith County voters, like residents in the state, approved all seven of the proposed amendments to the state constitution. Voter turnout was low with just under 9% of the registered voters casting a ballot. Of the 127,320 registered voters in the county, there were a total of 11,299 ballots cast.
Here are the results from the County:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 1
Against 866
For 10,371
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 2
Against 634
For 10,554
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 3
Against 2,563
For 8.588
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 4
Against 3,092
For 8,030
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 5
Against 1,991
For 9,122
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 6
Against 994
For10,201
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROP 7
Against 1,334
For 9, 785
In other area election results:
Longview Proposition 1
The removal of the “park” designation from Hinsley Park, thus authorizing the sale of said land or its use for other purposes.
For 2,706
Against 1,555
Go to http://longviewtexas.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=335 for more information on that proposition.
In the Whitehouse city elections:
Place 1
Ben Dieter – 115
Nicholas Moss – 431
Place 3
Chuck Barker – 89
Kelvin Fox – 95
Paul Hickey – 354
Place 5
Dick Jackson – 323
Jim Horn – 215
KETK reports the city of Whitehouse also passed 14 special propositions, many of which deal with restructuring the city.
Van ISD
Van ISD has proposed a $13,200,000 bond for the construction, renovation, demolition, acquisition and equipment of school buildings and the levying of the tax in payment thereof.
Against 738
For 353
Elsewhere, Quitman ISD passed a $10.5 million bond, Athens ISD voters approved a bond just under $60 million, and Overton voters said yes to alcohol sales.
