Bandera Unofficial Count Has Griffin Leading Mayor Race and a Tie on ESD 1

A later unofficial Bandera County results report, run at 7:41 a.m. on Nov. 6, shows Denise Griffin still leading the City of Bandera mayor's race and leaves Bandera County Emergency Services District No. 1's Proposition A in a tie.

The county's unofficial cumulative report lists 19 of 19 precincts reporting. It records 11,394 ballots cast among 19,340 registered voters, or 58.91% turnout, countywide. These figures remain unofficial. As of this writing on Nov. 10, the county elections page still labeled the posted results unofficial, and no official canvass file was found there. The same day’s check of the unofficial cumulative results link still returned the Nov. 6, 7:41 a.m. unofficial report, identical to the file already reviewed. The commissioners court agenda list showed regular meetings through Oct. 22 and no posted November canvass meeting or official-results filing. Election-night accounts used earlier unofficial totals released at 10:52 p.m. on Nov. 3; those earlier numbers are lower and are reported below only to show what changed.

Mayor and City Council

In the mayor's race, the Nov. 6 unofficial report shows Griffin with 163 votes, or 44.66%; Cindy Coffey with 130 votes, or 35.62%; and Timothy Galarnyk with 72 votes, or 19.73%. The report records 365 votes cast in the race and 35 undervotes. Griffin's lead over Coffey is 33 votes, our arithmetic. That later unofficial file does not declare a winner.

The Bandera Bulletin, in a Nov. 3 election-night report, cited earlier unofficial totals of 150 votes, or 45.32%, for Griffin; 118 votes, or 35.65%, for Coffey; and 63 votes, or 19.03%, for Galarnyk, from a cumulative report it said was released at 10:52 p.m. with 10,306 of 19,340 registered voters, or 53.29% turnout. The Nov. 6 unofficial report is the later county file still posted as unofficial on the elections page.

In the City Council race, voters could choose none, one or two candidates. The Nov. 6 unofficial report shows Randi Mellon with 222 votes, or 63.98%, and Allen Jehle with 125 votes, or 36.02%, on 347 votes counted, with 453 undervotes. The Bulletin's election-night unofficial figures were 198 votes, or 63.26%, for Mellon and 115 votes, or 36.74%, for Jehle. Only those two candidates appear on the unofficial report.

ESD No. 1 is now tied in the unofficial count

Bandera County Emergency Services District No. 1 Proposition A is tied in the Nov. 6 unofficial report: 529 votes for and 529 votes against, or 50.00% each, on 1,058 votes cast, with 46 undervotes. The Bulletin's election-night unofficial count had the same proposition passing 463 to 452, or 50.60% to 49.40%. The later unofficial file does not show a lead for either side, and this report does not treat the earlier unofficial lead as the final result. No recount notice or official canvass was found on the county elections page.

Emergency Services District No. 2 Proposition A remains ahead in the unofficial Nov. 6 report, with 1,321 votes for, or 63.66%, and 754 votes against, or 36.34%, on 2,075 votes cast. The Bulletin's earlier unofficial figures were 1,187 for, or 62.97%, and 698 against, or 37.03%.

No official canvass is cited here. The results above are from the unofficial Nov. 6 report, not a prediction of the final count.

City Hall is listed at 511 Main Street, P.O. Box 896, Bandera, Texas 78003, according to the city website, phone 830-796-3765.

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