Supervisors races decided with Harris, Koontz wins; McMurtrie captures school board seat
By Don Richeson –
By a three-to-one margin, Middlesex County voters participating in an advisory referendum in the general election Tuesday said they want to keep the 1910 Daughters of Confederacy monument in place at the Middlesex County Historic Courthouse in Saluda. According to unofficial results on the Virginia Department of Elections website, 3,229 voters, or 75%, voted no to moving the monument, while 1,076, or 25%, said yes.
There were three contested Middlesex races. Don Harris won the Saluda Dist. supervisors race, defeating Greg Chambers 544-472. In the Hartfield Dist. supervisors race, incumbent John Koontz fended off a challenge by write-in candidate Katie Carnes, 609-550. In the Hartfield Dist. School board race, Jenny McMurtrie defeated Pamela Burrell Pierce 756-396.
Statewide, Republican Glenn Youngkin edged Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the governor’s race, winning 50% of the votes to McAuliffe’s 48% (1,663,755-1,593,741). Liberation Party gubernatorial candidate Princess Blanding, a Middlesex County resident, received 2,625 votes, or less than 1%. The Middlesex totals in the race were Youngkin, 3,700; McAuliffe, 1,853; and Blanding, 45.
