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