Matt Schellenberg (R) 8,886 53%
Jack Webb (R) (incumbent) 7,881 47%
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In an upset, City Council District 6 challenger Matt Schellenberg unseated Council President Jack Webb, 53 percent to 47 percent, in the only race that saw an incumbent ousted. Both are Republican.
“I think it’s great,” Schellenberg said soon after joining supporters of mayoral candidate Mike Hogan about 10 p.m.
He said his win was sealed about 9 p.m. as he watched the results from his house.
Schellenberg attributed his success to a “grass-roots, knocking-on-doors” campaign.
“We’re going to do the right thing of holding government accountable,” said Schellenberg, emphasizing that means the City will “spend less money.”
“We mean cutting expenses at City Hall,” he said.
Webb led the City Council the past year as it grappled with budget shortfalls.
Schellenberg received 8,886 and Webb took 7,882 of the 16,767 votes cast in the district that encompasses Mandarin and Beauclerc.
In the first election March 22 that led to the runoff, Webb took 45 percent of the vote to Schellenberg’s 30 percent. Greg Youngblood, also a Republican, received 25 percent of the vote, taking third place.