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Wichita’s Mayoral and City Council Elections: What Might Tuesday Teach Us?
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Elections are contests, but they’re also interpretive opportunities. In that spirit, here are some interpretations (along with some predictions) of my own. –Becky Tuttle will be re-elected to the Wichita City Council in District 2, Dalton Glasscock will be elected over his opponent Judy Pierce in District 4, and J.V. Johnston will be elected over his opponents Gary Bond and Ben Taylor in District 5. This means that, aside from the mayor’s race, the partisan leanings of the city council won’t change, at least not in any obvious way. Tuttle, the incumbent Republican candidate in District 2, will be re-elected; the Republican candidate to replace retiring Republican city council member Jeff Blubaugh in District for will be elected; and a Republican candidate to replace retiring Republican city council member Bryan Frye will be elected.