Manassas city voters chose Clinton; Wolfe, Sebesky, Lovejoy win council seats

Here are the voting totals of Manassas City voters as reported by the State Board of Elections late Nov. 8, 2016 with 6 of 6 precincts reporting.
The results do not become official until the canvass (verification of results) is completed later this week.

In the presidential race, Manassas voters cast 8395 votes for Hillary Clinton and 5934 for Donald Trump.

In the contest for Manassas City Treasurer, Patricia Richie-Folks was the winner with 6889 votes to 6498 votes for Russell Harrison. The incumbent treasurer, Robin Perkins, will retire Friday, Nov. 18.

In the seven-way contest for three seats on Manassas City Council, neither the Republican ticket nor the Democratic ticket swept the polling.

incumbent Mark Wolfe, who switched from Republican to Democrat, was the top voter getter with 7166 votes, followed by newcomer Pamela Sebesky, Democrat, and a member of the Manassas City School Board, with 6453 votes and incumbent Ian Lovejoy, a Republican, with 5840 votes.

Theresa Coates Ellis polled 5738 votes. Rexford G. Parr Jr. received 5424 votes. Incumbent Jon Way received 4427 votes and Michael Youlen received 1316 votes.

Hal Parrish Jr., who ran unopposed for reelection as mayor, polled 12,672 votes. There were 578 write-in votes for mayor. The names of the write-in candidates were not specified on the State Board of Elections website.

In the Manassas City School Board race, there were six candidates for four seats. Kristen Kiefer, who was running for a four-year term after being appointed in February 2015, was the top vote getter with 7384 votes, followed by Suzanne Westre Seaberg, also an appointee running for a four-year term, with 7010 votes. Businesswoman Robyn Williams, a newcomer, polled 6802 votes. Incumbent Scott M. Albrecht received 6645 votes.

Albrecht’s reelection means he will also become president of the Virginia School Boards Association.

School Board candidate Peter O’Hanlon received 6183 votes. Kim Jenkins-Bailey received 4644 votes.

In the Tenth Congressional District race, LuAnn Bennett, Democrat, polled 8018 votes to 6699 for Incumbent Barbara Comstock, Republican. Comstock won reelection, according to the State Board of Elections.

All the local offices begin Jan. 1, 2017 except for City Treasurer which begins on the retirement of the incumbent treasurer.