The importance of a single vote was echoed Tuesday during the local election portion of the 2016 General Election. Andy Duggin will be the new Mayor of the Town of Woodbury after he squeaked by opponent Charlie Harrell. Out of a total of 790 votes in the Mayor race Andy Duggin received 394 votes while Charlie Harrell collected 386 votes. 10 votes went to write-in. That however was not the closest local race as the difference of one vote separated candidates from the final seat of the Board of Aldermen. LuAnn Curlee secured that seat with 367 votes while incumbent JoAnn Davis finished with 366 votes. The six elected to the aldermen position are Dotty Duggin with 496 votes, Faye Northcutt-Knox 489 votes, Harold Patrick who did not run for Mayor will continue to serve in town government as he received 462 votes. Final three positions include Curlee, Lois Larimer with 409 votes and Adam Melton will continue as an Alderman as he attracted 404 votes. Deanna Brown finished the race with 294 votes and Walter “Chuck” Holt with 255 votes. Auburntown incumbent Mayor Roger Turney ran unopposed and got 86 votes. Two other votes were write-ins. Three candidates for six seats in Auburntown Aldermen’s race. Those three were as follows Janice Fletcher with 73 votes, Rita Kay Davis with 68 votes and Denise Crowell with 60 votes.
On the State scene Cannon County easily voted 46th District Representative Republican Mark Pody to stay in office. Voters cast 3723 votes for him in comparison to 1151 votes for his challenger Democrat Amelia Morrison Hipps. 7 votes were write in votes in that race.
Diane Black was the clear winner in the US House 6th District as far as Cannon County voting. Out of 4903 votes Black garnered 3449 of the votes while her opponent David W. Kent only received 1006 votes. David Ross who ran as an Independent got 440 votes and 8 write ins.
In the Presidential election Cannon County was all Donald Trump. Trump collected 75 percent of the Cannon County vote with 4006 compared to Hillary Clinton’s 1126 votes.
5429 registered Cannon County voters voted in this election 2826 early and absentee and 2603 turned out at the polls Tuesday.
