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Democrats keep their majority on a smaller Kalamazoo County Commission

A man in hooded sweatshirt and cargo pants receives a ballot from a poll worker wearing a surgical mask.
Leona Larson
Voting at the Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan office on Maple Street in Kalamazoo Tuesday

That's according to unofficial complete results from the Kalamazoo County Clerk/Register.

Democrats kept a comfortable majority on the Kalamazoo County Board Tuesday. Six seats went to Democrats and three to Republicans in the newly drawn districts that dropped two seats from the board.

All five incumbents who ran were reelected. That includes Democrats Monteze Morales, Tami Rey and Jen Strebs, and Republicans Jeff Heppler and John Gisler.

Democratic former commissioner John Taylor will return to the board.

Democrats Abigail Wheeler and Dale Deleeuw and Republican Wendy Mazer are the other new members.

Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK’s news team in 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats. She covered those topics and more in eight years of reporting for the Station, before becoming news director in 2022.