Early returns from Election Day and early voting totals show San Marcos residents in City Council district Place 5 keeping incumbent Mark Gleason and electing Jude Prather to replace outgoing Council Member Melissa Derrick in Place 6.
Gleason received 1,133 votes, or 59% of the total, to challenger Zachariah Sambrano who received 772 votes, or 41%.
Prather received 1,027 votes, or 54% of the total, to Mark Rockeymoore, who was also vying to replace Derrick in Place 6. Rockeymoore received 871 votes, or 46% of the vote.
In all, voter turnout in Hays County clocked in at 9,683 voters out of 155,158 registered voters in the county, or 6.2%.
