GLADSTONE - It was a tight race between the five candidates running for three, four-year-term seats on the Gladstone City Commission. With a landslide win in the two-year-seat race, two incumbents and two newcomers were elected to the commission during Tuesday's city election.
Incumbents Darin Hunter and Hugo Mattonen were re-elected, along with newcomer Joe Maki, while long-time commissioner Jim McKnight and first-year candidate Matthew Gay fell by the wayside. Newcomer James Polley won the two-year-term seat by a landslide against write-in candidate Steve O'Driscoll.
Voter turnout was at a mere 7.6 percent in the Gladstone city election, with a total of 516 ballots turned in.