{"id":40052,"date":"2017-06-06T20:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T02:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40052"},"modified":"2017-06-06T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:51:07","slug":"republican-candidates-win-contested-oxford-alderman-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/republican-candidates-win-contested-oxford-alderman-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Win Contested Oxford Alderman Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With 100% of precincts reporting, Republican candidates in <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> Ward 2 and Ward 6 have won their elections by wide margins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Incumbent Republican Alderman <strong>Jason Bailey<\/strong>\u00a0won 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat <strong>Wayne Andrews<\/strong>, 299 to 183 in Ward 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">First time candidate, Republican <strong>Mark Huelse <\/strong>won 71% of the vote in Ward 2,\u00a0beating Democrat <strong>Paula Shanks<\/strong>, 249 to 103.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">All other wards in Oxford were uncontested and won by Democrats by default. Incumbents <strong>Janice Antonow<\/strong> returns to Ward 3, <strong>Ulysses Howell<\/strong> to Ward 4, <strong>Preston Taylor<\/strong> to Ward 5, and <strong>John Morgan<\/strong> will still be Alderman-at-Large. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Democrat\u00a0<strong>Rick Addy<\/strong> won his first full term today in Ward 1. He had previously won a special election last year after Alderman <strong>Jay Hughes<\/strong> vacated his position on the Board of Aldermen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> No Republican or other opposition candidates ran in Oxford&#8217;s general election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Current Ward 2 Alderwoman <strong>Robyn Tannehill<\/strong> ran for Mayor of Oxford after <strong>Pat Patterson<\/strong> declined to run for reelection. As a Democrat, she was unopposed in the general election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Candidates will take office on July 3, 2017.\u00a0<\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 100% of precincts reporting, Republican candidates in Oxford, Mississippi Ward 2 and Ward 6 have won their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":40053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[38,9499,1441,146,1447,1442,10517,5,4,1437,10516,1404,156,7743,1448,1408,3651],"class_list":["post-40052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-elections","tag-board-of-aldermen","tag-democrat","tag-janice-antonow","tag-jason-bailey","tag-jay-hughes","tag-john-morgan","tag-mark-huelse","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-pat-patterson","tag-paula-shanks","tag-preston-taylor","tag-republican","tag-rick-addy","tag-robyn-tannehill","tag-ulysses-howell","tag-wayne-andrews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-6-06-General-Election.jpg?fit=600%2C382&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}