UPDATED: Renner, Lower take home most votes in Bloomington mayoral primary

Posted on February 28, 2017

By Adam Studzinski

BLOOMINGTON – What was a five person race for Mayor of Bloomington is now two, after incumbent Tari Renner and Kevin Lower received the most votes in Tuesday’s primary.

PODCAST: Listen to Scott and Patti’s interview with Lower on WJBC.

PODCAST: Listen to Scott and Patti’s interview with Renner on WJBC.

Renner, who’s seeking his second term, received 48 percent of the vote.

“To the people whose vote I did not earn, I’m going to take spend the next five weeks to try to do that, to explain why I think (the city) has made progress,” Renner said.

Lower, the current alderman for Ward 1, had about 19 percent.

“It takes a lot of money to do this and so it’s been an investment,” Lower said. “It’s been an investment in a lot of folks’ time, not just mine and it’s difficult on families”.

As for the other three candidates in the primary: Ian Bayne had 14 percent of the vote, Robert Fike had 10 percent and Diana Hauman had about 8 percent.

Voter turnout was 15 percent.

The general election is scheduled for April 4.

Adam Studzinski can be reached at [email protected].

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