It's Mace and Sutherland in the finals

Bay Villagers can expect to see a lot of orange and red this autumn, and not only in the season’s changing leaves. The field of four candidates vying for the office of Bay Village mayor was narrowed to two in Tuesday’s primary election, with incumbent Deborah Sutherland and challenger Marty Mace receiving the most votes.

The blue-and-white campaign signs favored by Claire Banasiak and David Volle will soon be removed from yards, with Sutherland’s red and Mace’s orange signs likely to fill the landscape. Sutherland was the top vote-getter in the Sept. 10 contest, with 1,299 votes, over 45 percent of the 2,859 voters in the Observer’s unofficial tally of election results posted at the city’s five polling locations and the vote-by-mail figures available on the county board of elections website immediately after the polls closed. Marty Mace received 940 votes (32.9 percent) for a second-place finish. David Volle came in third at 549 votes (19.2 percent) and Claire Banasiak had 71 votes (nearly 2.5 percent).

Sutherland and Mace will square off in the Nov. 5 general election.

Unofficial results by precinct:

                      Deborah Sutherland    Marty Mace    David Volle    Claire Banasiak
Vote by Mail              313                            219                93                      21
1A                             58                               40                 21                       2
1B                             57                               58                 33                       3
1C                             69                               71                 30                       8
2A                             86                               59                 35                       3
2B                             47                               102               73                       2
2C                             77                               53                 76                       3
3A                             106                             46                 48                       9
3B                             98                               25                 34                       3
3C                             73                               55                 28                       1
4A                             102                             75                 35                       3
4B                             91                               62                 18                       5
4C                             122                             75                 25                       8
TOTAL                     1299                           940                549                     71

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Volume 5, Issue 19, Posted 10:06 PM, 09.10.2013