VOTER TURNOUT INCREASES FOR MORGANTOWN MUNICIPAL ELECTION, TOTAL BALLOTS CASTS HIGHEST SINCE 2017
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Officials with the City of Morgantown have expressed open excitement over the increase in votes cast in the municipal election.
Unofficial results released by the Morgantown City Clerk’s Office late Tuesday night reported that 1,886 ballots were cast for the 2025 Morgantown Municipal Election before accounting for provisional ballots and canvassing, beating the number of ballots cast for the 2023 election by over 150 votes. Morgantown Mayor M. Joe Abu-Ghannam offered congratulations to city staff for their part in helping increase voter turnout for the 2025 election, which reached the over 1,700 vote threshold for the first time since 2017.
“I was ecstatic to hear that the public came out and voted,” said Abu-Ghannam. “One of the things we’re very fortunate to have is very knowledgeable, passionate voters in our community, and it’s just great that they all showed up.”
The votes counted for the 2025 Morgantown Municipal Election took place in seven polling locations across the Morgantown area. This included a location in the Evansdale neighborhood, in South Park, downtown Morgantown, as well as a location in Sabraton and the Morgantown Municipal Airport, among others. With the large number of polling locations to account for what is expected to be just under 2,000 votes when canvassing and provisional ballots are included, the process to vote was considered easy by most of those who participated.
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