Almost 20 years ago, Anita Sullivan was elected to become the Montgomery County Collector of Revenue, replacing Bob Schmidt.

Now, Sullivan will be serving her sixth term as collector as she won the general election on Nov. 8 with 3,652 votes. She ran unopposed.

“It’s wonderful to be re-elected,” Sullivan said. “I appreciate my job very much. I’m happy to serve the people in Montgomery County as collector.”

Montgomery County had a total of 8,071 registered voters, and 4,097 (50.76 percent) voted in the Nov. 8 election, according to the County Clerk’s office. Voter turnout in the county ranged from Rhineland/McKittrick’s 57.79 percent (the highest) to Wellsville’s 44.14 percent (the lowest).

Turnouts in the other precincts were High Hill (47.09 percent), Jonesburg (47.74), Middletown (53.08), Big Spring (52.24), New Florence (46.94), Bellflower (53.79, second highest) and Montgomery City (45.03).

There were a total of nine uncontested races in the county level. Nathan Carroz (associate circuit judge), Keith Freie (prosecuting attorney), Kathy Hancock (county clerk), Ryan Poston (presiding commissioner), Kaley Reagan (public administrator), Robyn Schmidt (circuit clerk), Sheila See (recorder of deeds) and Lori Stiers (treasurer) won their respective races. All of them – including Sullivan – were Republican incumbents.

Sullivan had the most votes out of the nine uncontested winners. Schmidt was second with 3,608, followed by See with 3,592, Carroz with 3,575, Hancock with 3,559, Stiers with 3,542, Freie with 3,533, Reagan with 3,529 and Poston with 3,493.

Sullivan was born and raised in Montgomery County. Her sixth great-grandfather, William Robinson Jones, settled in the county in 1819.

In September 1987, Sullivan was hired to work for Schmidt at the collector’s office.

“I worked for him for almost eight years,” Sullivan said. “Then, I took off to stay home with my boys. Then, I went to work for Jerome Overkamp in the assessor’s office. I did that until Bob was ready to retire. I took a shot and ran for collector.”

Sullivan won the primary election in 2002, defeating Wellsville resident Burton Smith 1,715-692. She ran unopposed in the general election three months later and finished with 3,399 votes.

Sullivan ran unopposed in the primary election three months ago and finished with 1,938 votes.

Also in the general election, Jeff Myers (42nd District) and Bruce Sassmann (61st District) won their respective State Representative elections. They ran unopposed.

Republican Eric Schmitt came out on top in the U.S. Senate race, receiving 1,143,626 votes (55 percent), to beat Trudy Busch Valentine (868,873), Libertarian Jonathan Dine (34,706) and Constitution incumbent Paul Venable (14,548).
Schmitt received 2,973 votes in Montgomery County, compared to Valentine’s 1,010, Dine’s 51 and Venable’s 29.
Republican Scott Fitzpatrick won the State Auditor race with 1,216,046 (59 percent) votes. He received 3,193 votes in Montgomery County.

Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer defeated Democrat Bethany Mann 180,358-96,465 in the U.S. Representative 3rd District race. Luetkemeyer had 3,251 votes in Montgomery County.
Republican Travis Fitzwater defeated Libertarian Catherine Dreher 3,279-611 in the Montgomery County ballot and 44,040-12,683 in the state ballot.

Montgomery County voted to retain two justices on the Supreme Court (Zel Fischer and Robin Ransom) and four judges on the Court of Appeals in the Eastern District (Kelly Broniec, Thomas Clark II, Michael Gardner and John Torbitzky). Broniec is a Montgomery City resident.