Ellsworth will have two new members on its city council following Tuesday’s general election.

The top vote getter for three open seats on the council was Jessica Kootz with 334. She was followed by Darcy Hansen, 271 votes, and incumbent Wayne Scritchfield, with 286 votes.

Coming in fourth was Michael Hunt with 59 votes.

Tuesday night’s totals will not be official until Ellsworth County commissioners meet at 8 a.m. Monday, Nov. 18, to canvass the votes. At that time, they also will determine individual write-in vote numbers, which were only counted in total election day.

The day’s major action was at Wilson, where three candidates filed for mayor and six residents tossed their hats into the arena for two seats on the Wilson City Council.

An at-large board position in the Central Plains school district also attracted voters.

At press time, Michelle Brokes of Wilson had 338 votes and Chad Rogers of rural Holyrood had 265. Russell County, which has USD 112 territory, added 71 votes to Brokes’ total and 10 to Rogers’ count.

Results from Rice and Barton counties were unavailable.

Election officer Shelly Vopat said about 30 percent of Ellsworth County’s 4,160 eligible voters went to the polls. A good portion of those were from Wilson.

Challenger Michael Peschka, who heads Wilson’s economic development group, defeated long-time mayor Larry Ptacek.

For the two council seats, top vote getters were former mayor David Criswell and Ryan Stoppel.

Here are the unofficial vote totals:

Wilson mayor

Michael Peschka — 169

Larry Ptacek (I) — 58

Ron Bouska — 12

Wilson City Council

David Criswell — 136

Ryan Stoppel — 98

Steve Claussen — 52

Anne Piper — 37

Gary Everett (I) — 78

Jerry Florian — 17

Wilson also had write-ins for mayor and council. They will be counted when commissioners canvass.

The other contested race was in Lorraine, where three candidates competed for the mayor’s job.

The unofficial vote totals:

Kimberly Tranichek — 15

Joe Togersen — 13

Vernon Donbraska — 6

The Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District had four positions open; however, none of the candidates had opposition.

The unofficial vote totals:

Position 1 — Darin Holecek — 531

Position 2 — Gina McGowan — 539

Position 5 — Cynthia Edgerle — 516

At-large position 7 — Ashley Bohl — 523.

All are incumbents with the exception of Bohl. Dr. Mark Herzog did not file for reelection.

Also Tuesday, voters helped decide the fate of a constitutional amendment that would do away with the state’s method of counting the residences of students and military.

Kansas was the last state to have such a requirement.

In Ellsworth County, 589 voters supported the elimination of the census adjustment.

Another 425 voted to keep the adjustment, which is used in the reapportionment of the Kansas senate and house of representatives.