Politics & Government
Collins Defeats Baxter By 30 Votes in City Council Race
Preliminary election results show Tracy Collins will represent Ward 4 on the Woodstock City Council.
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A one-term Woodstock City Council member will return to the seat she lost four years ago to the current incumbent.
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That’s according to preliminary election results, which show challenger Tracy Collins defeating incumbent Liz Baxter to serve as the Ward 4 representative.
Collins defeated Baxter with 54.6 percent, or 178 votes. Baxter received 45.4 percent, or 148 votes.
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Collins was initially elected to the Ward 4 seat in 2007 when she defeated Baxter, who held the seat for four terms before she was ousted.
Baxter made a comeback in 2011 when she defeated Collins for the seat.
Ward 2 candidate David Potts and Ward 6 incumbent Rob Usher both ran unopposed in the Nov. 3 municipal elections, which saw just 326 votes cast in the race. The city of Woodstock has 13,479 registered voters.
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