There may be a recount to see who will be on the board of education next year for Bowling Green City Schools.
Provisional ballots need to be counted before Wood County’s election results are final.
The Wood County Board of Elections will also count the absentee ballots mailed on Monday.
Once all eligible ballots are in, any results within one-half of 1% will be recounted, said board of elections Director Terry Burton.
It only matters between the third and fourth vote getters when three are to be elected, or the third and second when two are to be elected, Burton explained.
In Bowling Green, Tracy Hovest was the top unofficial vote getter with 3,875 votes, followed by Stephen Bateson at 3,739 and Howard “Ardy” Gonyer at 3,738.
Fourth place went to Peggy Thompson, who had 3,727 unofficial votes – within 11 votes of third place and a seat on the board.
“It seems likely it’s going to be a recount,” Burton said.
He cautioned, however, that recounts cannot be determined until the official count is completed.
Brian Paskvan had 3,505 votes and Joseph Edens had 3,348, according to the unofficial results.
The official count will take place on Nov. 20 and any recounts will be the week of Nov. 27, Burton said.
He said he also flagged the race for Rossford City Council, where there was a five-person race for three seats.
The top three unofficial vote getters were Zachary Owen with 1,413, Rachel Tinney with 1,221 and Larry W. Oberdorf Sr. with 1,068.
Coming in fourth place was Gregory J. Marquette with 1,035 – 33 votes out of third place.
Jerry Staczek garnered 891 votes.
Burton was surprised with Tuesday’s voter turnout.
The 50.95% voter turnout was close to gubernatorial election numbers, he said.
“It was stronger than I expected,” he said. “We had a pretty strong percentage compared to statewide.”
He said the statewide turnout was almost 49%.
Burton said he could not remember the last time the state chose to add issues to a local election.
Issue 1 and Issue 2, which addressed women’s rights to abortion and legalizing marijuana, were approved at the county and state levels.
Burton said the 11,200 absentee ballots cast was very high for an odd election year but not as high as during a gubernatorial election.
