After more than two decades, the town of Madison will have a new mayor.
Jennifer Campbell, currently a planning commissioner, beat out Piedmont Deli owner Dustyn Hickman for the town’s top job.
Campbell won 59 votes, or 56.73% of the total vote in the town of roughly 200. Hickman’s final tally was 44 votes, or 42.31%.
Campbell will replace longtime Madison Mayor Willie Lamar.
Lamar was first elected mayor in 2000 and won every mayoral race until this year, when he decided not to run for reelection.
Campbell’s town council will feature two new faces after councilors Alma Lu Ayers and William Payne also decided not to run for reelection. The two will be replaced by incoming councilors Kimberly Pumphrey and Deborah Byram, both of whom ran unopposed.
Incumbent councilors Charles Carter Sr. and Nancy Knighting also ran unopposed and were reelected to their seats on Council. Knighting is currently the town’s vice mayor.
Election Day last week was the first time since Madison’s 1976 charter that elections to Town Council were held in November instead of May. The elections were moved to coincide with the presidential, Senate, House and gubernatorial elections held on the first Tuesday of November.
Source: www.dailyprogress.com