Municipal elections from around the county

Incumbent Charles Moore faces a runoff election for the mayor of Linden with challenger Kenneth Barrineau.

Moore had a total of 299 votes to Barrineau’s 328 in municipal elections Tuesday. The third candidate, Frank Lankster, received 54 votes.

In the Linden District 1 city council race, Jan Cannon won with 80 votes to Denny Baynham’s 42. In District 2, Mike Smith won with 82 votes, and his opponent, Johnathan Owens, had 40. Jimmy Pope, with 63 votes, and Milton Vick, with 54, will meet in the runoff for District 5. The third candidate, Robbie Smith, had 45 votes.

Linden saw 38 percent of its 1,800 eligible voters turn out for the election.

The town of Thomaston had only one race, for city council District 1. Peggy Pritchett garnered 40 votes to challenger Heath McClure with 6, out of the 60 eligible voters in the district.

In Myrtlewood, incumbent Jane Vick will remain as mayor after receiving 49 voters to the 18 earned by her challenger, Joseph Beverly.

Thomaston has 109 eligible voters on the roll, but a town spokesman said some 15 or 20 have moved away but not removed their names from the list.