In lower Carbon County, two candidates locked in a tie for the Republican nomination for a six-year term on the Lower Towamensing Board of Supervisors in Tuesday’s primary election.

In Palmerton borough voters decided their party’s nomination for the four-year term of mayor.

The tie is between Terry Kuehner and Jay Mullikin, who both received 151 votes.

In April 2019, the board appointed Mullikin to the supervisor seat vacated by Supervisor Bernard Jesse Mendez died on March 26 of that year.

Mullikin is fulfilling the remainder of Mendez’s term, which expires at the end of this year, and is running for re-election.

In the mayor’s race, Don Herrmann defeated William Gallagher by a vote of 256-172 to win the Republican spot on the general election ballot.

Gallagher was appointed in September to fill the vacant mayor’s seat left when longtime Mayor Chris Olivia resigned. Gallagher will finish Olivia’s term, which expires Dec. 31.

Gallagher was on Palmerton Council at the time, but resigned his seat to become mayor.

Lower Towamensing

The Kuehner-Mullikin tie will have to be broken through a process by the Carbon County Board of Elections.

There was no Democratic candidate Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Maxine R. Scherer, a Republican, ran unopposed for the four-year term as tax collector and collected 262 token votes, and Louise M. Koons, a Democrat, was unopposed for the four-year term as judge of elections in the township’s South District and received 58 votes.

There were no candidates for the other positions that are slated to be filled by the Lower Towamensing voters, including a six-year term as constable, two auditors’ positions, for two- and six-year terms, respectively, a four-year term as judge of elections in the North District, and four-year terms as inspectors of elections in both the North and South districts.

Palmerton borough

While Hermann prevailed in the mayor’s runoff on the GOP side, there were seven candidates in Palmerton for nominations within the Democratic and Republican parties for four four-year terms on the borough council that will be decided in November.

Running unopposed but set to square off in the general election were Democrats Randolph Gursky, 211; Alyson Nicole Krawchuk, 205; and Kris W. Hoffner, 231; and Republicans Raberta Hans, 293; Cory Kepner, 290; Richard L. Nothstein, 362; and Michael J. Ballard, 287.

Lisa M. Nemeth, a Republican who ran unopposed for a four-year term as tax collector, received 438 complimentary votes, while other uncontested candidates in the borough included Lisa Snell Kern and Richard M. Snell, Republicans who are running for four-year terms as judge of elections and inspector of elections in the Middle District, respectively, who tallied 183 and 171 votes in that order.

There were no candidates running in the borough for the six-year term as constable and four-year terms as judges of elections and inspector of elections in either the East or West districts.

Bowmanstown

Token votes for the order of the day in Bowmanstown, where an unopposed mayor candidate and five people seeking four terms on the borough council were all unopposed.

Republican Zachary Snyder collected 82 votes to win the nomination for the four-year term as mayor.

Set to square off for four four-year terms on the council are five candidates who were unopposed Tuesday, including Democrats Robert Moyer and Ben Price, who received 40 token votes each, and Republicans Donna L. Winter and Candace Rodrigues, who each received 62 complimentary votes, and Darren Thomas, who tallied 70 token votes.

Democrat Maria E. Smith, who sought her party’s nomination for a four-year term as tax collector, received 52 token votes, and Republican Salvatore Lizzio, who ran for the nomination for a six-year term as constable, received 85 complimentary votes.

No one ran in Bowmanstown Tuesday for the four-year terms as judge of elections or inspector of elections.

Towamensing Township

John Kleintop, a Democrat, was the lone candidate for his party’s nomination for the six-year term as supervisor in Towamensing Township that is to be filled this year by township voters.

He received 169 complimentary votes.

Four other candidates on the Towamensing ballot who sought poll positions - judges of elections or inspectors of elections, all four-year terms - were all unopposed. Getting token votes for their respective positions were Democrats Wendy K. Hoppel, 60, inspector of elections post in the North District, and Natalie Kleintop, 71, judge of elections in the South-II District, and Republicans Michael Christman, 117, judge of elections position in the North District, and Mary Anne Shafer, 134, inspector of elections in the South II District.

No one ran in the township for the six-year term as constable, nor the four-year terms of judge of elections and inspector of elections in the South I district.