After Midlands school board member’s resignation, a new election date is set
Voters in the middle of Lexington County will have an additional race to vote on when they head to the polls in June.
Election officials have set June 23 as the date for a special election to fill an open seat on the Lexington 1 school board. The seat opened up when board vice chair Beth Shealy resigned March 29 following her husband’s arrest on charges of possessing child sex abuse material.
The special election will follow the statewide primaries to pick the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor, U.S. Senate and other offices on June 9. If no candidate wins a majority in any of those races, a runoff election will be held on the same date as the special school board election.
Seats on the Lexington 1 school board are nonpartisan, but a bill that passed the state Senate last month would require school board candidates in Lexington to declare a party affiliation beginning in 2028.
The new seat will be elected district-wide in Lexington 1, which covers the town of Lexington as well as Gilbert, Pelion, Red Bank and White Knoll. Filing for the race will open at noon on April 17 and closes at noon on April 27. Voters who wish to vote in the special election must be registered by May 24.
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