Singleton and Stallings Run Away with 2025 Garner Town Council Election
Kelvin Stallings and Gra Singleton react to early voting results in the 2025 council race.
Garner Voters reject negative campaigning and embrace its past and its future with election of Singleton and Stallings.
In what was slated to be tight race of candidates with a mix of experience, tenure, and qualifications, turned into an end-to-end rout by incumbent Gra Singleton and first-time Garner candidate Kelvin Stallings on election night.
Unofficial results from the NC Board of Election.
Singleton and Stalling each beat every other candidate in every precinct in Garner. This after, as the results revealed, they had dominated early voting.
Endorsements and outside money seemed to play a rare and sometimes unwelcome role in this year’s election.
Singleton and Stallings both were endorsed by the Wake County Democratic Party, while McIver and Uzzell had been endorsed by the Wake County Republican Party.
The Mayor’s endorsement of new-comer McIver and incumbent Behringer seemed to have little impact on the outcome of the race, however, negative mailers targeting Gra Singleton from an outside group, seemed to have have the opposite intended effect on Singleton’s campaign efforts.
Stallings’ early campaigning, social media, and efforts on the ground in the community seemed to bear fruit as early voting and elected day unfolded.
Rex Whaley (unaffiliated), who had put up strong numbers in his 2023 campaign, couldn’t seem to get good footing on what had become a high turnout and more endorsement impacted race.
