With 20 of 21 precincts reporting, Bill Worley and Rodney Lock were the apparent winners of a Republican runoff for the two seats on the Whitfield County Board of Education.
Worley, with 54 percent of Tuesday’s vote, edged out Tony Stanley for the District 2 seat on the board.
Lock took 54 percent of the vote to defeat opponent Jessica Swinford for the District 2 seat.
Louis Fordham was the only candidate on the ballot for the District 4 seat. He claimed that seat during the July 20 primary without opposition. Worley and Lock didn’t get the 50 percent plus one vote required by law during that initial run.
All three incumbents – Tim Trew, who held the District 2 post, District 4 member Jerry Nealy and at-large member John Thomas a- ll opted not to run for re-election. There are no Democrats on the November ballot, so tonight’s winners will claim the seats.