The Webster Progress-Times

WALTHALL - Charles Rivers and Janice Lamb will face off in two weeks to determine who will be District 3 supervisor for the next two years.

The two received the most votes of nine candidates in Tuesday's special election to finish the late Lynn Lamb's term, which expires in December 2007.

Rivers, who is District 3 road foreman, led the ballot with 235 votes, or 32.1 percent, according to complete but unofficial results.

Janice Lamb, the later supervisor's widow, garnered 141 votes, or 19.26 percent. The elementary schoolteacher has been serving as interim supervisor since she was appointed to fill the District 3 vacancy until the special election.

The runoff election will be Nov. 22, when District 3 polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The unofficial results of Tuesday's race show that the number of votes cast for the other candidates were 104 for Phillip Smith, 70 for Danny Hubbard, 60 for Dale Boatman, 50 for Buster Duvall, 37 for Mark Burton, 21 for Earl Baker and 14 for Mike Gary.

The county Election Commission was to certify election results Wednesday after processing affidavit ballots, of which Circuit Clerk Deborah Hood Neal said were only a few.

The voter turnout Tuesday of District 3's registered voters was about 50 percent.