SUNBURY - An appointee to Shamokin City Council was the top vote-getter in Tuesday's General Election.
Democrat Bill Milbrand earned his first election victory after receiving 754 votes unofficially, and won a four-year term. The other victor in Tuesday's election was longtime councilman R. Craig Rhoades, also a Democrat, who won his sixth consecutive term after earning 648 unofficial votes.
Rhoades outdistanced the lone challenger Betsy Richardson by 86 votes.
Richardson, a Republican, totaled 562 votes.
Barring any changes when absentee ballots are counted, the results mean there will be no change on city council.
Rhoades and Milbrand, who was appointed in 2010 to fill out the remainder of a term vacated when Garth Hall resigned from office, will be joined on the board by Mayor George Rozinskie Jr., William Strausser and Michael Snyder.
Ironically, Richardson had been appointed in 2009 to fill out Hall's vacancy through that year.
A total of 1,970 votes, six of them write-ins, were cast in the city's 13 precincts.
An official count of votes cast will be held next week.