Trafford’s Republican voters gave the lone incumbent on the GOP ballot one of the four nominations for a seat on borough council in the November election, while the write-in votes on the Democratic ticket were higher than the number of votes for the lone candidate on that ballot in the May 18 primary.

Based on unofficial results, Lauren Lindsay, 27, led the GOP ticket with 21.1% of the Republican vote, followed by incumbent Zack Cole with 20.2%, Justin Batzel, 28, at 16.8% and Brian Lindbloom, 53, at 13.5%. Bill Mence, 53, captured 12.6% of the vote, but was just eight votes behind Lindbloom, who is chief of the borough volunteer fire department.

Incumbent councilman Casey L. Shoub Sr., 70, was the lone Democrat on the ballot.

But, Shoub likely will have company running on the Democratic ticket in November, because there were 185 write-in votes, which was 15 more votes than Shoub received.

Incumbent council members Ralph Deabner and Leslie Peters are not running again.

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