Voters in East Penn Township decided nominations in both parties for the four-year term as tax collector, while those in Franklin and Mahoning townships did the same for nominations for six-year supervisors’ positions in contested races that existed in the Lehighton area.

In East Penn, Wendy K. Kunkel easily won the Democratic nomination for tax collector, defeating Jacob Kratzer by a vote of 113-41, while Kathy Henderson outdistanced Sherry A. Smalley, 239-143, to win the GOP bid.

In Franklin, Jeff Kuklentz won the Republican nomination for the supervisor’s bid, defeating Thomas R. Beltz, 383-269, and in Mahoning, the winners of two Republican nominations that were up for grabs for seats on the board of supervisors were Deborah K. McGowan and Ronald R. Reeser, who garnered 315 and 289 votes, respectively. Losing out was Bernard Mieczkowski with 228 votes.

Otherwise, uncontested race results in that part of the county were as follows:

East Penn Township

While Kunkel and Henderson will square off in November for the tax collector’s job, two candidates who sought nominations Tuesday for six-year terms on the board of supervisors were unopposed.

Republicans William G. Schwab and Keith L. House collected 280 and 301 token votes, respectively.

Also in the township, Republican Candy Everett was an unopposed candidate for a four-year term as judge of elections in the South District and collected 160 complimentary votes, while party members Kay Becker and James Zelrick were unchallenged for four-year terms as judge of elections and inspector of elections, respectively, in East Penn’s North District. They tallied 201 and 174 votes, respectively.

There were no candidates on either ballot in the township for three other positions, including the six-year term as constable and a six-year term and a two-year term, both as auditors.

Franklin Township

The win by Kuklentz in Franklin Township sets up a November contest as he will face Democrat Fred Kemmerer Jr. in the general election. The latter was unopposed Tuesday and received 205 token votes.

Sara J. Keiser, a Republican, was unopposed for a four-year term as tax collector and received 669 votes Tuesday, while three others in the township were also unopposed. Getting complimentary votes were Republican Lisa M. Sawyer, 229, seeking a four-year term as judge of elections in the Harrity District, Republican Ann Shoenberger, 236, for a four-year term as inspector of elections in Harrity, and Democrat Stacy J. Sheckler, 80, for the four-year term as judge of elections in the Long Run District.

No one sought nominations in the township Tuesday for five other positions, including the six-year term as constable, four-year terms as judge of elections and inspector of elections, both in the Independent District, a six-year term as auditor, and a four-year term as the inspector of elections in the Long Run District.

Mahoning Township

With their wins Tuesday in Mahoning, McGowan and Reeser will go against Democrat Myron Zeke Blahy in the general election for two seats on the board of supervisors. Blahy received 167 token votes as an unopposed candidate Tuesday.

Meanwhile, eight people on Mahoning’s ballots were all unopposed in the primary. They include Republicans Pauline F. Homm, who received 526 votes while seeking the four-year term as tax collector; Charles Pollock, 507 votes for the six-year term as constable; Sandra Putkowski, 310, four-year term as judge of elections in the Mahoning District; Jo Ann Hawk, 314, four-year term as inspector of elections in the Mahoning District; Joyce Walters, 123, four-year term as judge of elections in New Mahoning District; and Gilbert Walters, 116, four-year term, inspector of elections in New Mahoning District; and Democrats Marie Klotz, 30, four-year term as judge of elections in Packerton/Jamestown District; and Kathleen L. Haldeman, 27, four-year term as inspector of elections in Packerton/Jamestown District.

There were no candidates in Mahoning on Tuesday for a six-year term as auditor to be filled by the voters.

Lehighton Borough

In Lehighton, eight people - five Republicans and three Democrats - were all unopposed in pursuit of their parties’ nominations.

Republican Clark Ritter received 358 token votes to win his party’s nomination for the four-year term as mayor, while Autumn Abelovsky and Ryan Saunders, seeking nominations for two four-year terms on the council, collected 310 votes each. GOP member Mary E. Strohl, seeking the four-year term as tax collector, received 395 complimentary votes and Republican Stacy Lee Smith, running for the four-year term as inspector of elections in the First Ward, received 112 token votes.

Democrats Joe Flickinger, who was seeking one of two nominations available for four-year terms on the council, and Donald Lawrence Rehrig, who ran for his party’s nomination for the two-year seat on the council, and Thomas Sitarchyk, seeking the six-year term as constable, were all unopposed. Flickinger collected 275 token votes; Rehrig, 284; and Sitarchyk, 264.

Otherwise, no one ran in the Lehighton primary for four other positions that are scheduled to be filled by the voters. All four-year terms, they are judge of elections and inspector of elections in the Second Ward, and judge of elections and inspector of elections in the Third Ward.

Parryville

Democrat Lamont G. Sherer was the lone candidate who appeared on the municipal side of the Parryville ballot.

Seeking the nomination for a four-year term as judge of elections, he collected 26 token votes.

No one ran in Parryville for seven other positions that are scheduled to be filled by the voters, including mayor, three council positions, tax collector and inspector of elections, all for four-year terms, and the six-year position as constable.

Weissport

There were no challenges in races in Weissport Borough Tuesday as four people who appeared on that ballot are all unopposed.

Receiving complimentary votes were James Osborne, a Democrat seeking one of three nominations that are available for four-year terms on the council, as well as the six-year term as constable, where he collected 21 votes for each nomination; Democrat Paulette L. Watson, who received 20 token votes as a candidate for her party’s nomination for the four-year term as mayor; Joseph J. Foster, a Republican who totaled 15 complimentary votes in seeking a two-year term on the council; and Lynnette Moyer, a Democrat who tallied 20 votes to win the nomination for the four-year term as tax collector.

There were no candidates in the borough for two other posts, the four-year terms of judge of elections and inspector of elections.