Write-in votes produced the election of township supervisors in Elmhurst, La Plume and West Abington and two new Mayfield council members, according to an official count released Wednesday.
Well-known community volunteer Warren Kramer Jr. won a six-year seat on the three-member Elmhurst Board of Supervisors. Kramer received 117 votes.
In La Plume Twp., incumbent Supervisor Lisa Huffsmith won a six-year term with 18 votes while Kimberly Henry won the job of tax collector for the next two years, filling an unexpired term. Henry received 19 votes.
In West Abington Twp., incumbent Supervisor Kenneth Klinkel won a six-year term with 37 votes.
In Mayfield, Wendelyn Bochnovich, 65 votes, and Mary M. Rosler, 45 votes, won four-year council seats.
They join Bridget Boettcher and Thomas K. Gallagher, who were on the ballot and already known winners of the other two available council seats.
No one filed nomination petitions or papers to be on the ballot for the seats the write-in winners won.
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