Correction: Meredith Phillips was incorrectly listed as having won the Skyline School Board election. The correct winning candidates were Brett Harrison, Emily Edwards, and Shane Stokes. Though Phillips did win in Hickory County, half of Skyline's school district resides in Dallas County, whose results were not taken into consideration at the time of this article being published. When Dallas County numbers are taken into account they reflect that Stokes was the true winner of the election. Numbers will be published at a later date.
original: Brett Harrison, Meredith Phillips (correction, Shane Stokes), and Emil Edwards were all elected to the Hickory County R-I Skyline School Board Tuesday, April 4, in the General Municipal Election. They beat out four othee candidates. There were 452 total votes.
Harrison came out with the most votes, 108, ore 23.89 percent. Phillips was second with 70 votes, or 15.49 percent. Edwards received 63 votes, or 13.94 percent. They will be sworn into office at the next school board meeting Wednesday, April 16, for three year terms.
Other candidates included Shane Stokes, David Johnson, Dan Wallace, and Donnie Morehead. Stokes and Morehead were the next closest candidates, receiving 58 votes and 53 votes, or 12.83 percent, and 11.73 percent, respectively. Johnson was next highest with 41 votes, or 9.07 percent. Wallace had 40 votes, or 8.85 percent. The late Troy Pinon was also a candidate for election, but passed two weeks before the election. He received 19 votes, or 4.20 percent.
Absentee had 36 votes for the Skyline School Board. Phillips took a clear lead with seven of those votes, or 19.44 percent. Dan Wallace was next with five votes, or 13.89 percent. The rest all tied with four votes, or 11.11 percent.
Carson’s Corner came in next with one vote cast, and that vote went to Edwards.
Pittsburg precinct reported next with two votes, both of which went to Johnson.
Skyline precinct came in next with 413 total votes cast. Harrison received 104, or 25.18 precent of those votes. Phillips received 63 votes, or 15.25 percent. Edwards received 58 votes, or 14.04 percent. Next highest candidate was Stokes with 54 votes, or 13.08 percent. Morehead followed with 49 votes, or 11.86 percent. Wallace and Johnson tied with 35 votes each, or 8.47 percent. Pinon received 15 votes, or 3.63 percent.
There were no votes from Camden County for the Skyline School Board. Polk County had six votes cast, an equal split between Edwards, Harrison, Stokes, Johnson, Wallace, and Morehead.
