School board races for BCSC tightest of the night

While Republicans won by large margins in last night’s election returns, the closest totals of the night came in the non partisan Bartholomew Consolidated School Board races.

Whitney Loyd won election to the District 3 seat with 59 percent of the vote over David Thiele. Tom Glick and incumbent Nichole Wheeldon won last night for the district 5 and district 7 seats.

Wheeldon’s race was the closest of the night with just a hair over 50 percent to win over Samantha Ison. That was a margin of 83 votes of the 27,903 cast.

Glick had 51.7 percent over Leigh Britt.

Early voting made up about two thirds of all the votes this election, according to election officials. There were 12,329 Election Day voters, 21,381 early voters by machine and 2,231 absentee votes cast with paper ballots. Just over 66 percent of the county’s 54,087 registered voters cast ballots.