Roosevelt Lee has been elected as the District 5 representative for the Coahoma County Board of Supervisors with his four-year term set to begin Jan. 1, 2020.
Lee defeated incumbent Will Young in the Democratic primary runoff Tuesday 355 (51.67 percent) to 331 (48.18) with one write-in vote (0.15 percent).
All four precincts in Rena Lara, Bobo, Roundaway and the Coahoma County Expo Center in Clarksdale along with the absentee ballots were counted Tuesday night. The affidavits are to be counted Wednesday morning for final results.
No other candidates are running for the seat, so the Democratic nominee will automatically be the winner.
(Please pick up a copy of Wednesday’s Clarksdale Press Register for complete election results.)
