OAK POINT — Polls open at 7 a.m. today in a runoff election between current City Council member Leslie Maynard and Colleen Cameron, who is challenging her for a seat.

Both women received 188 votes in the May 10 election.

Maynard

Oak Point elects its City Council members at large. Cameron and Maynard tied for third place among six people vying for three seats. Incumbents Judith Camp and Jim Almond were re-elected.

City Secretary Tamara Null reported that a total of 170 early ballots were cast in the runoff, or close to half the number of people who voted in May.

Turnout had been steady — about 20 people per day — through most of the early voting period, Null said. During the last two days of early voting on Monday and Tuesday, more than 60 ballots were cast — about 35 percent of the total early votes.

The May election saw a 22.6 percent turnout of the city’s 1,702 registered voters.

Cameron

Typically, runoff elections don’t draw people back to the polls. A runoff election earlier this spring between Steven Burgess and Doug Robison for the 393rd District Court judgeship attracted well under 1 percent of the county’s eligible voters during the early voting period. Denton County Elections Administrator Don Alexander said the worst turnout before that was about 1 1/2 percent.

But the runoff between Perry McNeill and Mark Burroughs in the Denton mayor’s race brought 73 percent of those who’d voted back to the polls during the early voting period.

By the end of the runoff, about 7 percent of all of Denton’s 55,289 registered voters cast ballots, giving the mayoral gavel to Burroughs.

PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881. Her e-mail address is pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com.

OAK POINT RUNOFF

What: Oak Point City Council runoff election

Where: Oak Point City Hall, 100 Naylor Road

When: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today

For more information: 972-294-2312