Municipal voting in the Jim Thorpe area of Carbon County Tuesday featured a four-person race for two Republican nominations for six-year terms in the Penn Forest Township Board of Supervisors, one which was decided by just two votes.

In the only other contested race, the husband vs. wife runoff for the GOP nomination for a four-year term in Jim Thorpe’s Fourth District was won by Steven Perdie, who defeated his wife, Doren S., by a vote of 17-16.

Penn Forest Township

Winning the GOP nominations in Penn Forest were Roger L. Meckes with 416 votes, and Patrick Holland, who squeaked out a 286-284 win over Judith M. Knappenberger. Finishing fourth was Brandon Bell with 265 votes.

Josiah Behrens III, a Republican seeking his party’s nomination for a four-year term as tax collector in the township, received 711 complimentary votes, while party member Anton Leppler collected 617 token votes to win the nomination for the six-year term as constable.

There are only two other people who appeared on the township’s ballots. They are Robert F. Steiger, who received 50 votes to win the Democratic nomination for a four-year term as judge of elections in the Middle District, and Democrat George Hollingsworth, who collected 73 votes to win his party’s nomination for the four-year term as judge of elections in the North/East District.

Otherwise, no one ran for 10 positions that are slated to be filled by the township voters this year. They include two auditor’s positions, for two-year and six-year terms, respectively; four-year terms as judges of elections and inspectors of elections in the South/West, North/West and East districts; and inspectors of elections in the Middle and North/East districts.

Jim Thorpe Borough

Besides the inspector’s race in the Fourth District, there were no challenges on the Jim Thorpe Borough municipal ballot Tuesday, although there will be a borough council race in November.

That’s because four Democrats and two Republicans who sought nominations for four four-year terms that will be filled in the general election were unopposed Tuesday.

Receiving complimentary votes and slated to go head-to-head in the fall are Democrats Dennis J. McGinley Jr., 307; Thomas Highland, 405; Michael S. Rivkin, 329; and Joanne Klitsch, 383; and Republicans Gregory Strubinger, 330; and Mary Shorten, 256.

Michael J. Sofranko, a Republican who sought his party’s nomination for a four-year term as mayor, received a complimentary vote total of 414; Patricia A. Spillman, a Democrat won her party’s nomination for the four-year term as tax collector with 564 token votes; and James McHugh, a Republican who ran for his party’s nomination for a six-year term as constable, garnered 393 complimentary votes.

Several other unopposed candidates appeared on the town’s ballots for nominations from their respective parties for four-year poll positions. They include: Adell Rosick, Republican, 55, inspector of elections in the First Ward; Karen Lauth, Republican, 141, judge of elections, Third Ward; Lisa Marie Lauth, Republican, 138, inspector of elections, Third Ward; James Gilmore, Democrat, 54, judge of elections, Fourth Ward; and Edith Crossin, Democrat, 115, judge of elections, Fifth Ward.

There were no candidates for the four-year terms of judge of elections in the First Ward, judge of elections and inspector of elections in the Second Ward and inspector of elections in the Fifth Ward.

Kidder Township

Six candidates for elective positions in Kidder Township were all unopposed this time around.

Complimentary votes went to Republicans Wilson D. Klotzman Jr., 110, and Bruce Berger, 142, who ran for two nominations for six-year terms on the township’s board of supervisors; Republican Raymond M. Gluck, 135, who sought his party’s nomination for the four-year term on the board; Democrat Kim M. Ginopolas, 92, who ran for her party’s nomination for a four-year term as tax collector; and Republicans Lois J. Hammer, 42, and Norma J. Wiegand, 41, who ran for four-year terms as judge and inspector of elections, respectively, in the North District.

No one ran in Kidder for the six-year term as constable, nor a six-year term as auditor or four-year terms as judge and inspector of elections in the South District.