Updated 4/11/18Alderman Nick Lange has won re-election to represent the East Ward of Marthasville by a narrow margin of five votes.Lange had been challenged by write-in candidate Keith Theissen. The outcome of the race wasn’t clear after the election April 3 because Lange fell just shy of having a majority vote, 55 out of 112. That means it fell to the Warren County Clerk’s office to count and validate the write-in votes.The count was conducted Friday, April 6, and Theissen emerged with 50 votes.Marthasville aldermen serve for two-year terms. Lange was elected to office in 2014 as a write-in candidate and re-elected in 2016.In the Southwest Ward, former Marthasville Police Chief Eugene “Gene” Jenkins was elected to the board of aldermen in a race against incumbent Christopher DeVore. Jenkins received 105 votes and DeVore received 82.Lange and Jenkins will be sworn in at the board of aldermen’s next public meeting April 18 at 7 p.m. in Marthasville City Hall.

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