ROBERTSDALE, Alabama --- Preliminary indications are that incumbents prevailed in most of Central Baldwin’s races as a good turnout was reported in the four municipalities.

All vote totals are unofficial as of Wednesday. Provisional votes must be certified by the Baldwin County Board of Registrars with Loxley, Silverhill and Summerdale set to canvas votes on Tuesday, Sept. 18, then send final totals to the Board of Registrars for certification.

Robertsdale plans to count provisional votes on Wednesday with the race for a runoff between Aubrey Grant Jr. and Jason W. Dixon too close to call on Wednesday morning.

Ruthie Campbell is guaranteed a runoff spot in the race for longtime Council member Aubrey Grant Sr.’s spot, garnering 430 or 42.5 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election. The younger Grant held a six-vote lead over Dixon, 294 to 288 with the city’s 13 provisional votes yet to be counted.

A total of 1,017 votes were counted in Tuesday’s municipal election in Robertsdale, or 36 percent of the city’s 2,820 active voters.

The city also includes 233 inactive voters. According to a representative from the Board of Registrars, voter cards are sent out every four years. If the card comes back as undeliverable with no forwarding address, the voter is then counted as inactive. If the voter does not vote or return a new voter card over the next two voting periods, then the voter is taken off the voters’ list.

In the only race for mayor among the four municipalities, Robertsdale Mayor Charles Murphy topped Roger Booth to win his sixth term in office, garnering 706 votes (70.1 percent) to Booth’s 322 votes (29.9 percent).

Mayor Pro-Tem Joe Kitchens won his seventh term in office, topping Earl Colley 716 to 301 with 70.4 percent of the vote, while Brent Kendrick claimed his sixth term with 63.5 percent of the vote over Lisa Wallace Lee, 643 to 370.

Incumbents Sue Cooper and Paul Hollingsworth qualified unopposed for Tuesday’s elections.

In Loxley, incumbent Richard Teal won his seventh term in office, garnering 58.9 percent of the vote over Vicki Fore Dyess, 145 to 101.

Preliminary results indicate that 31 percent of Loxley’s active voters cast ballots in the town’s municipal election on Tuesday with a total of 789 active voters, according to the Board of Registrars. Loxley also has 191 inactive voters.

Mayor Billy Middleton and incumbent Council Members Wallace Sabin, Jeffery T. Knight, Katherine Breeden and Michael Allegri Sr. qualified for Tuesday’s elections unopposed.

In Silverhill, Bert Jones topped former mayor Frankie Kucera for his second term in office, garnering 126 votes (58.6 percent) to Kucera’s 89. Jared Lyles also won a second term, defeating Tonie Norden with 82.2 percent of the vote, 176 to 38, while former county commissioner Wayne Gruenloh won his first full term on the Silverhill Council with 81.9 percent of the vote over Alan Norden, 172 to 38.

Unofficially, 215 or 49 percent of the town’s 437 active voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s election. Silverhill has an estimated total of 48 inactive voters, according to the Board of Registrars.

Mayor Timothy Wilson and Shirley Stephens retained their seats on the Silverhill Council unopposed. Michael Allegri Jr. also qualified unopposed and will take over the seat vacated by longtime Council Member Steve Brooks in November.

The only municipality where incumbents did not prevail was Summerdale with both Ralph Clopton and Gerald Hughes falling in their respected races.

Clopton fell to Mary Carolyn McDaniel, who garnered 69.4 percent of the vote with 157 votes to Clopton’s 67. Shannon Cheves received just two votes in the race or 1 percent of the total.

Stewart garnered 58.8 percent of the vote to top incumbent Hughes 130 to 91.

Preliminary results show 47 percent of Summerdale’s 482 active voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s election with a total of 226 votes cast. Summerdale has an estimated 103 inactive voters, according to the Baldwin County Board of Registrars.

Summerdale Mayor David Wilson, along with Mayor Pro-Tem Norma Wilson Giles, Travis Townsend and Myles Bishop were all re-elected unopposed on Tuesday.