A new county judge will be taking his seat on the Commissioners Court after Ricky Gleason upset incumbent Shan Stolarczyk in Tuesday’s runoff election.
Neither man received more than 50 percent of the votes during the March 3 GOP primary for the Kendall County Commissioners Court, triggering the runoff.
On May 26, Gleason rode a voting-day surge, pulling 402 more votes than Stolarczyk, who emerged from early balloting with a slim 76-vote lead.
Gleason, however, finished with 4,367 votes, or 51.94%, while Stolarczyk ended with 4,041 of the ballots cast, or 48.06%.
Gleason joins Precinct 2 Commissioner Andra Wisian in the winner’s circle. Wisian came out strong from early voting with a near-insurmountable 352-vote lead, 1,087 to 762. She vied for the spot against challenger J.C. Taylor.
Election Day voting May 26 turned out no different in handing Wisian 57.78% to 42.22% of the ballots, or 1,552 votes to 1,134.
In the March 3 primary, Wisian finished with a plurality, but not a majority, of votes cast in her race.
Stolarczyk forged a 44.16% to 40.94% win on March 3; Wisian took a commanding 47.8% to 38.24% win in the earlier primary.
Because neither Wisian nor Gleason face a Democratic challenger in the Nov. 3 general election, they will assume office Jan. 1.
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