Winners: Hoychick, Fontenot, Bertrand, Hayes

Eunice voters on Saturday stuck to November primary favorites in picking city-wide contest winners in the runoff general election.
Officials elected in Saturday’s runoffs and in November will receive their commissions later this month and take office in January.
Terry Hoychick, who led the November primary with 33 percent of the vote in a four-person field, was elected city judge Saturday, receiving 54 percent of the vote to Paul Brown’s 46.
Hoychick will succeed 30-year Judge Lynette Feucht, who is retiring at year’s end.
Randy Fontenot, who had 41 percent of the vote in the five-man field in the primary, was elected chief of police Saturday.
He had 59 percent of the vote, compared to Raymond “Bubba” Cole’s 41.
According to the unofficial totals, 3,931 votes were cast in the judge’s race, which covers Ward 6.
The total vote in the chief’s race was 2,854, city only.
Educator Albert Hayes, Jr., who tied with Roland Miller at 33 percent each in the primary, won the St. Landry School Board District 12 seat Saturday, getting 56 percent of the vote compared to the outgoing City Councilman Miller’s 44.
Taking Miller’s Ward 1 seat on the council will be Jason Bertrand.
He got 55 percent of the vote, compared to Marshall Thibodeaux’s 44 percent. Bertrand led primary with 31.