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JUDGE, CIRCUIT COURT, 10TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT\nSeat 2\nRepublican Marc R. Kellams was re-elected to the 10th Judicial Circuit Court's second seat in Tuesday night's uncontested race. The win is the fourth time Kellams has been elected to the six-year position since originally being appointed to fill a two year term.\n"I'm very pleased to be re-elected to office because I have always felt that this job gave me the ability to make a difference in people's lives," Kellams said. "So I hold the responsibility very seriously and try to use the responsibility given to me wisely and fairly."\nSeat 3\nRepublican Douglas R. Bridges won the 10th Judicial Circuit Court's third seat by a substantial margin Tuesday night. Bridges defeated Libertarian Stephen W. Dillon 73 to 27 percent. Bridges could not be reached for comment.\nAUDITOR\nRepublican Barbara M. Clark was elected county auditor last night. Clark defeated Democrat Lee Jones 55 to 45 percent. Clark could not be reached for comment.\nTREASURER\nRepublican Patricia Jeffries was re-elected county treasurer last night. Jeffries defeated Democrat Donna S. Richardson in a close race, 52 to 48 percent.\n"I'm delighted that I have an opportunity to fulfill a lot of the different upgrades to the office and making it much more user friendly and efficient," Jeffries said. "I really wanted another four years to complete a lot of the things that I had already started."\nCORONER\nIn a three-way race, Democrat David W. Toumey won the county coroner position Tuesday night in his first run for a public office. Toumey, who has served as deputy coroner for the past 10 years received 43 percent of the vote, defeating Republican Gary L. Darland and Independent Tammy Nadine Harty. Darland received 40 percent of the vote and Harty took 17 percent.\nAs one of his initiatives, Toumey said he will look to create a coroner investigator position to "assist deputy coroners in the investigations of death ... This would allow somebody to work part-time and learn some of the skills and aptitudes of those requirements of deputy coroner."\nSURVEYOR\nIn a tight race, Republican Steven V. Farkas defeated Democrat Kevin P. Enright for county surveyor Tuesday night in his first run for public office. Farkas received 51 percent of the vote, with Enright taking the other 49 percent.\nFarkas said he wants to "restore surveying to our county surveyor's office. We didn't have a surveyor who was doing the field work ... I plan to offer my knowledge and expertise in the field of surveying to our county officials and our taxpayers ... It's the only job I've ever drawn a weekly paycheck from."\nSCHOOL BOARD\nSue Wanzer won the second district's school board seat Tuesday night. Wanzer received 41 percent of the vote, while defeating emeritus business professor William E. Scott and Gretchen Elkins Weidner.\n• Lynn H. Coyne, IU assistant vice president for administration, won the Fourth District's school board seat. Coyne received 57 percent of the vote while defeating William T. Campbell.\n• Joan Hart won the Fifth District's school board seat. Hart received 54 percent of the vote while defeating Keith Klein.\n• Lindsay T. Boyd won the Sixth District's school board seat. Boyd received 45 percent of the vote while defeating Mike Gentile and Peter Uthrppuru.