The filing deadline for Glasgow City Council is Jan. 5. Ashton Harrison, election coordinator, said if candidates miss the January deadline they can still file as a write-in. GN1 FILE PHOTO. Michael Crimmins/Glasgow News 1.
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
The filing deadline to be on the ballot has come and — as of Jan. 5 at 4 p.m — has gone for Glaswegians hoping to run for a seat on the Glasgow Common Council, and, based on the filings, there will not be a primary election.
Upon the passage of ordinance 2019-2413 — signed by former Glasgow Mayor Harold Armstrong — the number of council seats fell from 12 to nine, which, among other things, made the opportunity for a primary much more likely as it takes double the number of seats plus one to initiate a primary for the council election.
According to the 2024 candidate filing list provided by Ashton Harrison, election coordinator at the Barren County Clerk’s office, 17 people have filed to run for the available nine seats — two short of the 19 filings needed for a primary.
According to the list, all of the current Glasgow council members — Marna Kirkpatrick, Terry Bunnell, Joe Trigg, Freddie Norris, Patrick Gaunce, Chasity Lowery, James”Happy” Neal, Marlin Witcher and Max Marion — have submitted the necessary paperwork to appear on the general election ballot.
Those nine will be joined by eight new names; Justin Martin, Elizabeth Shoemaker, Phillip Gearlds, Cherie Vaughan, Randy Wilkinson, Matt Keith, Libby Short and Tommy Burris.
As there are not 19 candidates the Glasgow Common Council will forgo the primary — scheduled for May 21 — and all 17 people will instead be on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. Cave City and Park City city councils waived their primaries regardless of the number of filings and therefore have a June filing deadline.
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