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Heated Races Bring Out Heavy Vote In Some Cities
Voters turnout in Kansas municipal elections reached high levels in cities including Kansas City where Paul Mitchum defeated Mayor Tucker after eight years, Coffeyville saw strong participation, and several towns approved liquor store referenda. Highlights include Great Bend scrapping city manager government, Elkhart voting out liquor stores, and Tyre electing women to mayor and council. Local races also featured gas well proposals and multiple city commission and school board changes across Topeka Emporia Lawrence Chanute Ola and other communities.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Kas
Clark EB. Tucker
Paul ¥. Mitchum
Tucker
Mileham
Coffeyville
Mitchum
Great Bend
Medicine Lodge
Elkhart
Carry Nation
Willard Mayberry
Tyre
Dearing
Wyandotte County
Democratic
Mitch ‘Um
Imade
Missouri
Creat Bend
Harper
Horton
Kiowa
Arkansas City
Shawnee
Belleville
Meade
Coldwater
Lyndon
Baoks
Vesta Wheeler
May Weishaubt
Garden City
Sublette
Topeka
George Schnell
Bacher
John Burke
Louis E. Howard
Gerald K. Barker
Robert Schendel
Gordon Summers
Board of Education
Fort Scott
William Bardin
Robert C. Coyran
Albert Price
Ralph B. Whiteside
Raymond C. French
Brion Miller
Emporia
Frank F. Eckdall
Howard Davis
Leroy Raynolds
Funston Beckdall
Frank
C. C. Underwood
Lawrence
Jack Harris
John Crown
Simon Hurwitz
Ralph Pine
Henry Shenk
Ray Wright
Chanute
Randle Diver
J.D. Lightfoot
National Guard
OLA
John McNally