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Election
Sartor officially claims Surprise mayor race
Final vote totals show nearly double vote total victory
Independent Newsmedia/Jason Stone
Surprise mayor-elect Kevin Sartor, right, meets with a pair of voters during balloting for the primary election on July 30 at City Hall. Sartor easily won the election without it having to go to a runoff in November.
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FINAL PRIMARY ELECTION VOTE TOTALS
Mayor: Kevin Sartor (61.3%), Aly Cline (33.0%), Ed Cunningham (5.5%)
The Surprise City Council officially approved the City Council and general plan election results.
Kevin Sartor won the city’s mayor election over City Councilmember Aly Cline by nearly double in final voting totals Maricopa County released.
Six members of the Surprise City Council met Aug. 12 to canvass the results from the July 30 primary election.
Vice Mayor Nick Haney and Councilmember Jack Hastings approved the election results by phone.
Sartor finished with 61.3% of the votes, or 17,541 votes total. Cline, meanwhile, earned 33.0% of the vote, or 9,433 votes total.
Official write-in candidate Ed Cunningham tallied 1,570 votes, or about 5.5%.
There were 78 write-in votes for people who were not official candidates and those votes did not count.
Nearly 32.8% of registered voters in Surprise cast a vote for mayor.
The biggest voting block for a district with a council race came in the mostly senior-dominated District 2, which had a 53% turnout. That dwarfed the races in Districts 3 (28.4% turnout) and 4 (29.2% turnout).
Earle Greenberg (2), incumbent Patrick Duffy (3) and Johnny Melton (4) all won election or reelection to the council.
The Surprise general plan question was approved with 55.0% of the vote, or 11,622 votes total.
The new mayor and councilmembers will be sworn in during the first meeting of January. Sartor will be replacing the retiring Skip Hall, while Greenberg is taking over for Cline, and Melton is filling the seat of the retiring Remley.
Duffy has served in District 2 since 2017 and has been elected twice to full terms.
Jason Stone can be reached at jstone@iniusa.org. We’d like to invite our readers to submit their civil comments, pro or con, on this issue. Email AZOpinions@iniusa.org.
Meet Jason Jason Stone joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 2019, after a distinguished three decade media career that included stops at the Arizona Republic, iHeart Media/Clear Channel and Beckett Sports Card magazine. He remembers when airports sold newspapers.
Community: He is a big supporter of the Valley's original sports team: The Phoenix Suns.
Education: Northern Arizona University with a BS in broadcast journalism and a minor in sports coaching.
Random Fact: The capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.
Hobbies: Surfing, backgammon and men who aren't afraid to cry.
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