2016 Shelby County municipal elections

2012 Shelby County municipal elections were held August 23, 2016 in several Shelby County cities and towns.

For results from other Birmingham-area municipalities, see 2016 municipal elections.

Alabaster

• Mayor: Marty Handlon (incumbent) 2906 votes, winner; Larry Sailes 541 votes
• Council:
  • Ward 1: Sophie Martin (incumbent), winner; Lee Cunningham
  • Ward 2: Rick Ellis, winner; Matthew Penhale
  • Ward 3: uncontested
  • Ward 4: Greg Farrell, winner; Rick Walters (incumbent)
  • Ward 5: Russell Bedsole (incumbent), winner; Jamia Alexander-Williams
  • Ward 6: uncontested
  • Ward 7: Kerri Bell Pate, winner; Eric Starling

Calera

• Mayor: Jon Graham (incumbent, unopposed)
• Council (6 seats at large):
  • David Bradshaw (incumbent), Chris Bunn (incumbent), Philip Busby (incumbent), Ernest Montgomery (incumbent), Kay Snowden-Turner (incumbent), Alan Watts (incumbent)
  • Also ran: Derrick Bryant, Kenneth Cost, Terry Hall

Chelsea

• Mayor: Tony Picklesimer, 1,064 votes (54%) in runoff, winner; Dale Neuendorf, 799 votes (46%) in runoff; Alison Moore Nichols
• Council:
  • Place 1: Cody Sumners, winner; Robert Barnes
  • Place 2: Scott Weygand, winner; Chris Thomas
  • Place 3: David Ingram (incumbent), winner; Gary Isbell
  • Place 4: Tiffany Bittner, winner; David Calhoun
  • Place 5: Casey Morris, winner; Elizabeth Cooley, Tom Holcombe

Helena

• Mayor: uncontested
• Council:
  • Place 1: uncontested
  • Place 2: uncontested
  • Place 3: Alice Lobell 688 votes, winner; Cris Nelson (incumbent) 650 votes
  • Place 4: Laura Joseph 936 votes, winner; Tangee Edwards 387 votes
  • Place 5: uncontested

Indian Springs Village

• Mayor: uncontested
• Council:
  • Place 1: uncontested
  • Place 2: uncontested
  • Place 3: Brian G. Stauss (incumbent), winner; Robert Burr
  • Place 4: uncontested
  • Place 5: C. Dale Elliott, winner; Bart Trammell (incumbent)

Montevallo

• Mayor: Hollie Cost (incumbent) 492 votes, winner; Earl Cunningham 321 votes
• Council:
  • District 1: Rusty Nix (incumbent), winner; Joyce Jones
  • District 2: uncontested
  • District 3: Tiffany Bunt, winner; Lee Waites
  • District 4: uncontested
  • District 5: Matt Walker, winner; Bill Glosson

Pelham

• Mayor: Gary Waters (incumbent) 1656 votes, winner; Lenny Glynn 1051 votes
• Council:
  • Place 1: Rick Hayes, winner; Lucas Burger, Kaneshia Sims, Rick Wash
  • Place 2: Ron Scott (incumbent) 807 votes (53%) in runoff, winner; Don Green, 700 votes (46%) in runoff; Tommy Johnson
  • Place 3: Beth McMillan, winner; Marco Gonzalez
  • Place 4: Maurice Mercer (incumbent), winner; Scott Christian
  • Place 5: Mildred Lanier and Karyl Rice, runoff; Mike Freeman

Vincent

• Mayor: Ray McAllister (incumbent), Joey Cobb
• Council:
  • District 1: uncontested
  • District 2: uncontested
  • District 3: Johnny Edwards (incumbent), winner; Jerry Raley
  • District 4: Ralph Kimble Jr (incumbent), winner; Joshua Youngblood
  • District 5: Mary Lee Reynolds (incumbent), winner; Faye Reynolds

Westover

• Mayor: Larry Riggins, winner; Mark McLaughlin (incumbent),
• Council:
  • Place 1: uncontested
  • Place 2: Wayne Jones, winner; Branon King
  • Place 3: Annette Tyler (incumbent), winner; Frankie Chappell Osborn
  • Place 4: uncontested
  • Place 5: Jeanne Champion-Fisch (incumbent), winner; Paul Grater

Wilsonville

• Mayor: Rosemary Liveoak (incumbent), Lee McCarty
  • Council (7 seats at large): Melissa Rosetta (incumbent), Richard Atchison, Larry Cohill, W. Gordon Fluker, Ivan Greene, Ricky Ray Morris, Blake Ray
  • Also ran: Calvin Gill (incumbent), Patricia R. "Pat" Johnson (incumbent), Terry Newman (incumbent), N. Alan Revis (incumbent),Anne Phelps, Lane Ross

Wilton

• Mayor: Jessica Smitherman Martin (acting incumbent), Bryan Gandy, Deborah Ann Hudson
• Council:
  • District 1: Valerie Brown, Casie Matthews
  • District 2: uncontested
  • District 3: William Darden, Jo Ann Hamm
  • District 4: uncontested
  • District 5: uncontested

References

• Hrynkiw, Ivana (August 12, 2016) "Birmingham area municipal elections 2016: What you need to know." The Birmingham News
• Hrynkiw, Ivana (August 23, 2016) "Birmingham area elections 2016: Hoover, Vestavia Hills elect new mayors." The Birmingham News