Newcomer Vos, incumbents Moore and Carroll win Vero City Council seats

Votes in for 2024 General Election for Indian River County

All votes were in for local elections as incumbents retained several city and county seats for Tuesday's general election. Sheriff Eric Flowers and Commissioner Laura Moss were re-elected to office, while Linda Moore and John Carroll were re-elected to Vero Beach City Council. Political newcomer Aaron Vos won the remaining seat that was vacated by council member Tracey Zudans. The constitutional amendments on the ballots needed a 60 percent of votes to pass. Voters agreed to pass Amendment 2, the right to hunt and fish, along with Amendment 5, providing an annual inflation adjustment for the value of the homestead property tax exemption. Voters rejected Amendment 1, which means school board races will remain nonpartisan. The voters also turned down ...

Cotugno, Dingle win Vero seats; Jones, McPartlan and Nun win Sebastian seats

Mayor John Cotugno and Taylor Dingle won two open seats on the Vero Beach City Council in Tuesday's general election. Fred Jones, Bob McPartlan and Christopher Robert Nun won three open seats on the Sebastian City Council. Votes were tallied after residents hit the polls to choose who will represent the city council in the Vero Beach and Sebastian municipal elections. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m. The general election had 30,461 active eligible voters, with 6,490 of those casting ballots, resulting in a 21.31 percent turnout, the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections website showed. There were 3,496 residents who voted by mail and 2,922 who cast their ballots on Election Day. Here are the ...

Moore, Zudans, Carroll win Vero City Council race; Rosario wins School Board District 2 seat

Linda Moore, Tracey Zudans and John M. Carroll Jr. won the three open seats in Tuesday's general election for Vero Beach City Council, according to the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections website. Five other candidates trailed behind in the vote count. Zudans had 15 percent of votes, while Moore and Carroll had 14 percent of votes. Rosario won the District 2 seat for the Indian River County School Board. Rosario competed against Cynthia Gibbs in a runoff race for the school board seat. Both candidates, along with two others, ran in the August Primary Election. A winner was not declared for the primaries since no candidate earned more than 50 percent of the votes. School board races are nonpartisan. ...