Schools

County Certifies School Board Votes

Chester County finishes counting the write-in votes.

Chester County Voter Services certified the election results Wednesday ending a contentious race for six available seats.

Five of the six endorsed Republican candidates earned enough votes to make their way onto the school board along with write-in candidate Sue Tiernan.

The write-in candidates running for West Chester VOTE managed to secure over 40,000 votes collectively, but they were only able to secure one seat.

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According to the county the final official vote count was as follows:

KAREN MILLER (REP/DEM) 9206
VINCENT MURPHY (REP) 7945
MAUREEN SNOOK (REP/DEM) 8858
LINDA RAILEANU (REP/DEM) 8505
GALEN PLONA (REP) 7497
WAYNE BURTON (DEM) 3568
TED M DIEHL (DEM) 3253

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WRITE-IN
SUE TIERNAN 7690
GARY BEVILACQUA 7550
RICK SWALM 7453
SPENCER VIRTA 6979
ANTONIA KEG 6785


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