Schleuter remains mayor; two incumbents unseated

Posted 4/4/17

Eric Schleuter has retained his seat as mayor of Warrenton. With a comfortable lead of 467 votes to 378, a 10-percent margin, Schleuter defeated Ward 1 Alderman Mike Shilharvey for the seat. The race …

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Schleuter remains mayor; two incumbents unseated

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Eric Schleuter has retained his seat as mayor of Warrenton.

With a comfortable lead of 467 votes to 378, a 10-percent margin, Schleuter defeated Ward 1 Alderman Mike Shilharvey for the seat. The race was decided by about 18 percent of registered voters in the city of Warrenton.

“I really love that people supported what we’ve accomplished,” Schleuter said. The city will continue moving forward with economic development plans it has in motion, he said. “We’re going to concentrate on downtown. We’re going to concentrate on projects we have going and see them to fruition.”

Schleuter said he was with Shilharvey when the results were announced, and that Shilharvey congratulated him. Schleuter thanked Shilharvey for running a clean race that wasn’t hard on the city.

Races for Warrenton’s Ward 3 and Wright City’s Ward 2 aldermen seats saw two challengers unseat their incumbent opponents.

In Warrenton, challenger Gary Miller garnered 102 votes to incumbent Bob Delaloye’s 85, an 8-percent margin. In Wright City, newcomer Nathan Rohr took a substantial win over incumbent James Toothman with a 21-percent lead, 84 votes to 53.

In a highly contested race for a seat on the Warrenton Fire Protection District board of directors, Nicole Priest won a narrow victory over opponent Aaron Sutton. It was a close race, with only a 4-percent, 69 vote gap out of more than 1,500 votes cast. Priest had 796 votes to Sutton’s 727.

Overall voter turnout was about 11 percent of registered voters in the county, although participation was higher in precincts that had contested races.

Here are the results of major races in Warren County.

Warrenton Ward 1 alderman:

Incumbent Karen Casserly won with 61 percent of the vote against two opponents.

Warrenton Ward 2 alderman:

Gary Auch won uncontested.

Warrenton Ward 3 alderman:

Gary Miller won with 53 percent of the vote.

Wright City Ward 1 alderman:

Dan Rowden won uncontested.

Wright City Ward 2 alderman:

Nathan Rohr won with 56 percent of the vote.

Marthasville mayor:

David Lange won uncontested.

Marthasville East Ward alderman:

Dan Grafrath won uncontested.

Marthasville West Ward alderman:

Leo Meyer won with 60 percent of the vote.

Truesdale mayor:

Murray Bruer won uncontested.

Truesdale board of aldermen:

Incumbents Stanley Brookshier and Robert Green won uncontested.

Warren County Board of Education:

Laurie Wenzel, Franci Schwartz and Rodger Tucker took the three open seats.

Wright City Board of Education:

Alice Jensen, Heidi Box and Michael Bates got the three open seats.

Warrenton Fire Protection District Board:

Nicole Priest won with 50 percent of the vote.

Correction: A previous version of this story said Nicole Priest won her election by 49 votes. She won by 69 votes.


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