Two cities in west Kentucky have a considerable number of candidates vying for seats on their city councils.
The filing deadline was Tuesday for the 2018 Kentucky Primary Election.
Graves County Clerk Devonda Wilford said 22 people are running for City Council in Mayfield, prompting a primary race for the first time in nearly 20 years. The top 20 will move onto the general election for the 10 seats.
Calloway County Clerk Antonia Faulkner said the Murray City Council race has a record 36 filings (Feb. 8 update: Two candidates have withdrawn from the Murray City Council race. See below.) The top 24 will move on to the general election to fill 12 seats.
Both city councils garnered intense public interest in recent months for tackling divisive, hot-button issues: the payroll tax in Murray and the ban on bars and taverns in Mayfield. On both measures, the councils were split and tiebreakers were cast by the mayors.
Candidates for Murray City Council race:
- Richard Knight
- Jessica Evans
- Jeremy Bell (Incumbent)
- John Mark Roberts (Incumbent)
- Monty McCuiston
- Linda Cherry (Incumbent)
- Rickie Spann
- John “Johnny” Bohannon (Incumbent)
- David Hornback
- Alice Rouse
- Ron “R.G.” Gladden
- Donnie Winchester
- Dan Miller (Incumbent)
- Patricia “Pat” Seiber
- Robert Billington Jr. (Incumbent)
- Sue Hood
- Rose Ross Elder
- Barbara Cobb
- Burton Young (Incumbent)
- Jane Shoemaker (Incumbent)
- Barry Randall Hill
- James “Froggy” Gish
- Terry Strieter
- Michael Shayne Morris
- Jane Brandon
- Kim Tetrev
- Tina Gorham
- Wesley Bolin (Incumbent)
- Danny O. Hudspeth (Incumbent)
- Pat Scott (Incumbent)
- Robert Barker
- Chris Chapman
- Deana Wright
- Kaitlin Murnane
(Richard Vanover and Carmen Garland have withdrawn)
Candidates for Mayfield City Council race:
- “The Real” Johnny Jackson (Incumbent)
- Chuck Whitnell (Incumbent)
- Derrick Parrott
- Alaine Champy
- Berry McDonald (Incumbent)
- Brad Rodgers
- John Wesley Lawson
- Phil Myers (Incumbent)
- Nathaniel “Nate” Cox (Incumbent)
- Cindy Price
- Mel Doughty
- D. Keith Roach
- Chris Smothers
- Elisabeth “Betsy” Jones
- Wayne Potts (Incumbent)
- Janna Bennett Adams (Incumbent)
- George Quinton Taylor
- Derrick Herndon
- Carol R. Todd
- Johnny Jackson
- Nick Summers (Incumbent)
- Jamie Masso
This story has been updated.