In the local elections, there was some good outcomes and some disappointing outcomes. Lenoir City mayor, Tony Aikens, did get re-elected. However not without a fight. Aikens who has been mayor since 2010, had his first challenger. According to his last financial statement through the end of September, Aikens had taken in $73,075.00 in campaign contributions, mostly from people who don't live in the city. He also showed that he had spent $30,699.00 on his campaign. His challenger, Wayne Collins, a new comer to city politics, spent $431.00 on his campaign. Incredibly, Collins took 40% of the city vote or 1,510 votes to Aikens 2,366 votes. If this shouldn't be a wakeup call to Aikens, and it won't be, nothing will change his ways. The fact that Collins got that large of a vote is surely a blow to Aikens ego. Aikens isn't the only one that got their ego bruised.

*Tony R Aikens 2,366
Wayne Collins 1,510

In the Lenoir City council election, first time council candidate, Robin McNabb, knocked off incumbent, Mike Henline, to take a seat at the council table. And while he got to keep his seat, 25 year, city council incumbent, Eddie Simpson, also was defeated by McNabb coming in a distant 3rd place. Ms. McNabb topped Simpson by 163 votes. Simpson only kept his seat by getting 86 more votes than Henline. Shockingly, incumbent council member, Jennifer Wampler, came in first in the six person race which will give her the title of vice mayor for the next two years. The vice mayor title is in name only. Mayor Aikens never allows the council to hold a meetings if he's going to be absent. Two other council candidates, Trevor Branson and James Laney, made good showings but came up short of votes to earn a seat.

The election of former Lenoir City judge, Robin McNabb to the council is a huge event. Just two years ago, Todd Kennedy was elected to council becoming the first council member to ever vote no on anything Aikens wanted. I suspect with the addition of McNabb to the council, there will be many questions asked and more no votes. Maybe some of the other council members will finally get their heads out of their you-know-what's and start thinking for themselves. Probably not, but we can only hope. Ms. McNabb should take office before the next council meeting.

Trever Branson 1,369
James R. Laney 1,123
*Mike Henline 1,734  
Robin McNabb 1,983
*Eddie Simpson 1,820
*Jennifer Wampler 2,244

In Loudon, there were four candidates running for two seats on the council. Incumbent, Eric Newman was easily re-elected and lead the ticket. Newman is a two year incumbent. Obviously, Loudon voters liked what they had seen in Newman. The other seat was open due to the unexpected death of James "Bear" Webb. Vying for the other seat were Brendan Deboer, Mitch Miller and Kenny Ridings. Ridings was the winner of the second seat with Mitch Miller and Brendan Deboer falling short of the votes to get a seat. Deboer was heavily promoted by Loudon mayor, interim manager and former realtor, Jeff Harris. Deboer came in last. Just Saying.   

Brendan Deboer 976
Mitch Miller 1,038
Eric Newman 1,229
Kenny Ridings 1,118

In the only race in the county which featured a democrat, Democrat, Kenneth Moore was challenging incumbent 21st District State Representative, Lowell Russell. The 21st district encompasses part of Loudon County and Monroe counties. Moore was crushed in Loudon County by a near 80%-20% margin. In Monroe County, Moore was defeated by an even grater margin of near  84%-16%. This bodes well for the fact that democrats won't be winning any elections in Loudon County for a while. At least not the ones that run as democrats. 

On that note, we did have over 7,600 Loudon County voters cast a vote for Kamala Harris. That's about 23% of those who voted. The district with the largest number of Harris voters was Tellico Village with 2,411 village votes going to Harris/Waltz. The second highest was the 5th district with 1,460 Harris voters followed by Lenoir City with 1,013. The democrats did increased their presidential vote by 1.1% over the 2020 presidential election.

Kenneth Moore 4,458
Lowell Russell 17,130
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