Neither Webster nor Forest Hills will have vacancies when the new town government terms begin in December, according to official election results. In both elections, write-in votes showed a strong enough consensus to overcome the dearth of candidates to sign up for inclusion on the ballot.

Bryson City’s town election may be too close to call given that there were eight provisionary ballots left to count on election night.

Waynesville Mayor Gavin Brown pulled off a resounding victory against his challenger Jonnie Cure — a landslide of 1,394 to 216 votes that can only be interpreted as a voter mandate for the vision for the town Brown has carried out over the past 16 years.

It looks like a shortage of candidates for town board in Webster and Forest Hills won’t mean empty seats in town hall over the next term.

The Franklin Board of Aldermen will soon have some new blood leading the town into the future.

The race for Sylva town board has been crowded since filing began, and the election remained close all the way to the ballot box. 

Clyde voters gave Mayor Jerry Walker the thumbs-up to add four more years to the 35 he’s served on the town’s board, 11 of those as mayor. Walker, 79, won the election by a landslide, earning 110 votes to challenger Cindy Golden’s 44.

After a long day at the polls, Ralph Hamlett and Gail Mull were heading to The Imperial on election night to celebrate their re-election to the Canton Board of Aldermen.

Maggie Valley had the opportunity to select new leadership in this election, but residents voted for incumbents to continue the progress made over the last four years. 

Some candidates running for office in Waynesville are accusing the town of running off businesses and claim the town’s development rules are hampering development.