3 win seats in contested Lancaster city council races. All other races unopposed

Lancaster County School District candidates did not have challengers. Neither did the Lancaster County Council. Same goes for the incumbent Sheriff and Coroner and Clerk of Court.

There were no named candidates for the county’s Soil and Water Commission selection, per the South Carolina Election Commission website.

The three races that were contested were for the three city council seats: in District 3, District 4 and District 6.

Here’s everything you need to know.

Lancaster County School District

All the Lancaster County Schools Board of Trustees up for reelection won their races:

▪ Tyrom Faulkner in District 2

▪ Brad Small in District 4

▪ Margaret E. Gamble in District 6

Lancaster County Council

All four Republicans running unopposed for Lancaster County Council won the election that ended Tuesday:

▪ Terry Graham in District 1

▪ Billy Mosteller in District 3

▪ Steve Harper in District 5

▪ Brian Carnes in District 7 all won.

County council members serve four-year terms.

Lancaster Constitutional offices

Incumbent Republicans running unopposed won re-election for constitutional offices in Lancaster County:

▪ Sheriff Barry Faile

▪ Coroner Karla Knight-Deese

▪ Clerk of Court Jeff Hammond

Lancaster City Council

Here’s are the leaders with 100% of the precincts reporting on Tuesday night.

▪ District 3: Jackie H. Harris (51.56%)

▪ District 4: Octavia Mungo Jones (50.63%)

▪ District 6: Ronnie Sowell (70.78%)

Alex Zietlow

The Herald

Alex Zietlow writes about sports and the ways in which they intersect with life in York, Chester and Lancaster counties for The Herald, where he has been an editor and reporter since August 2019. Zietlow has won nine S.C. Press Association awards in his career, including First Place finishes in Feature Writing, Sports Enterprise Writing and Education Beat Reporting. He also received two Top-10 awards in the 2021 APSE writing contest and was nominated for the 2022 U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Rising Star award for his coverage of the Winthrop men’s basketball team.