Here’s who won Irmo’s special election for town council
Voters in the town of Irmo have chosen the newest member of their town council.
Mike Ward won Tuesday’s special election with 64% of the vote, with George Frazier receiving 28% and Ed Greco getting 8%, according to unofficial returns from the Lexington County elections office.
Ward, 40, runs a cybersecurity business in the town along Interstate 26 northwest of Columbia. He ran on improving infrastructure, managing the town’s growth and boosting community engagement. He previously ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Lexington-Richland 5 school board last year.
In a town-wide race for the open seat, he beat out Greco, a retired executive for SCANA and Dominion Energy and a member of the town’s planning commission, and Frazier, now a three-time candidate for the town council.
The town council seat came open after former councilman Erik Sickinger resigned earlier this year when he was arrested and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Sickinger had first been elected to the seat in 2020, and in 2023 was chosen as the town’s mayor pro tem, the mayor’s designated stand-in, by his fellow member’s on the town council.
Irmo will still hold a regularly scheduled election for half of its town council seats in November, but Ward will serve the remainder of Sickinger’s term through the end of 2027.
Ward will represent the town of 11,000 people some 12 miles from the center of Columbia. About 6% of Irmo’s more than 5,000 registered voters turned out for the election.
This story was originally published June 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM.
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