While six alderman candidates may have felt lucky going into Tuesday night’s election in Caledonia, one missed the mark to take one of the town’s five board of aldermen seats.
In Caledonia, all aldermen are chosen at large. The five candidates with the most votes earn a seat on the board.
The candidate list included incumbents Jason Chrest, Jacqueline Furnari, Robert Jacobs and Tammy McCool, alongside newcomers Matt Chisolm and Samuel Lance Lucky.
All four incumbents swept back into their positions, with Furnari receiving 148 votes, McCool receiving 144, and Chrest and Jacobs tying with 135 votes.
That left only one seat open for a newcomer, with Chisolm defeating Lucky 109 votes to 58, according to Town Clerk Donna Glasgow.
The newly elected board joins incumbent Mayor Betty Darnell, who secured 159 votes. No other candidates ran for the position.
No affidavit ballots were cast in the election, Glasgow said.
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