Westland primary vote is Tuesday
Westland voters will reduce the number of 12 candidates to eight during the primary election next Tuesday, Aug. 5.
The eight highest vote-getters for the four full-term seats will be on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. The three candidates with the highest vote totals will fill the four-year terms and the candidate in fourth position will serve the two-year term.
Ten of the 12 candidates are also seeking election to two available partial terms on the council. Those partial terms will continue for only about six weeks, from mid-November until Jan. 1 when the new, full term council members are sworn in.
Incumbents Emily Bauman, Jim Hart, DeLano Hornbuckle and Douglas Wishart, as well as newcomers Linda Filizetti, Bradley Gray, Michael Londeau, Antoinette Martin, Lekisha Maxwell, Joshua Powell, John Sullivan, and Timothy Wilhelm filed their candidacy petitions with the office of the city clerk.
Only Bauman and Hart are not seeking one of the two partial-term seats.
The top four vote getters for the partial-term seats in the primary will also advance to the Nov. 4 general election, where voters will elect the top two to fill seats.
