‘belle’ wins the Handicap-this-mayor’s-race contest
Photo by Sam Dean
Mayor David Bowers was re-elected Tuesday with 51.97 percent of the vote over challenger Mark Lucas, which means that belle, who guessed 52.4 percent wins our Election Day predication contest.
Congrats belle! (And congrats to Mayor Bowers, too). belle, you win a volume from Dan’s Bookshelf. Mayor Bowers wins 4 more years in office at $20,000 per year, plus benefits.
belle, email me your choice, plus your real name and address and I’ll drop your prize in the mail to you.
BTW, nobody was truly close in predicting the number of votes that independent Brandon Bushnell would take in the council race (he took 3,105). Most of you guessed in the three digits. The poster ‘dave’ came closest, with 1,750.
Here are the rankings, from closest to not so close, followed by the percentages each entrant guessed for Hizzoner:
1. belle 52.4
3. gdad 53.3
3. terps 53.6
4. Other John 49.9
5. dave 54.7
6. Miriam 54.9
7. Old Blue 55.5
8. Lynda K 56.2
9. Cold n P 58.3
10. Yupbilly 65.0
11. Uptheriver 35.0
May 2, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Think Bowers would switch prizes with me and let me have the $20k?
Quite shocked honestly at the results and still under the belief that no one should ever be elected to more than one term. Mayor Bowers may become the new example of why this is true. Change is good, don’t let anyone get comfortable.
Congratulations Belle!
Congrats belle!
I was counting on there being a larger write-in contingent…
Good job belle! Congratulations!!
Congrats, Belle!
Wow, only one person thought Brandon Bushnell would get more than triple digits? I think Brandon and our small group did VERY well considering everyone else had at least 10X the money, 10X the staff, and we had no party backing. And hey, Dan, you endorsed Brandon, and your readers still didn’t think Brandon could do as well as he did?
Congrats, belle.
#7 Katrina, when I guessed I really hadn’t the foggiest idea how many people would vote and I didn’t look at past elections to get an idea. Had I done that, I would have guessed much higher.
Thank you gdad! It’s nice to hear someone say something positive!
Part of what messed me up was I misread the posting and thought Bushnell was running against Bowers and Lucas. Not living down in Roanoke, I don’t follow things that happen with the elections much. But I did get a chance to meet Brandon once a couple months ago, nice guy.