WASHINGTON 鈥� All incumbents on the ballot in Washington D.C. held onto their seats in聽Tuesday’s 2018 midterm election.
Both Democrat Anita Bonds and independent Elissa Silverman retained their two at-large seats on the D.C. Council. Bonds took 44.7 percent of the vote while Silverman,聽a frequent rival of Mayor Muriel Bowser, took 26.8 percent.
Five candidates vied unsuccessfully for those at-large seats, including Republican Ralph Chittams Sr.; Libertarian聽Denise Hicks; independents Rustin Lewis and Dionne Reeder; and聽David Schwartzman of the Statehood Green Party.
Bowser had given her endorsement to challenger Dionne Reeder, a restaurant owner and former staffer for former Mayor Anthony Williams.
The candidates differed on the now-repealed Initiative 77, which would have raised minimum base pay for tipped workers to a standard minimum wage. Reeder opposed the measure; Silverman supported it.
Silverman said she expected Reeder to 鈥渞ubber-stamp鈥� any of Bowser’s positions.
Mayor Bowser cruised to her first successful re-election bid Tuesday night with 79 percent of the vote.
Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton 鈥� who faced four challengers 鈥� won yet another term.聽Non-voting Sen. Michael Brown defeated聽Green Party challenger Eleanor Ory.
D.C. Council Chairman聽Phil Mendelson聽won another term over Libertarian candidate聽Ethan Bishop-Henchman. Council seats were up for grabs in Wards 1, 3, 5 and 6, but no one was unseated.
