Conewago Elections

Precinct Map

Conewago Township Polling Places:
1^st Precinct - Township Building
3279 Old Hershey Road, Elizabethtown, PA 17022
2^nd Precinct - University Music
3514 Elizabethtown Rd, Hershey, PA 17033

Click here for Conewago Township Precinct Map.

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2008 General Election:

This information last updated 11/05/2008 09:00am with unofficial information from Conewago poll watchers.

President vote for one (4 yr term) - George Bush - incumbent
Party	Candidate	Pct1	Pct2	Tot
Democrat	Barack Obama	260 (31%)	260 (35%)	520 (33%)
Republican	John McCain	567 (68%)	467 (64%)	1034 (66%)
Independent	Ralph Nader	6 (.7%)	5 (.7%)	11 (.7%)
Libertarian	Bob Barr	5 (.6%)	3 (.4%)	8 (.5%)
Totals	Totals	838 (53%)	735 (47%)	1573

2008 Primary Election:

This information last updated with unofficial information from Dauphin County Elections and Conewago poll watchers.

President vote for one (4 yr term) - George Bush - incumbent
Party	Candidate	Pct1	Pct2	Tot
Democrat	Barack Obama	87 (51%)	95 (59%)	182 (55%)
	Hillary Clinton	82 (49%)	65 (41%)	147 (45%)
	Total	169	160	329
Republican	John McCain	139 (62%)	110 (60%)	249 (61%)
	Ron Paul	48 (21%)	44 (24%)	92 (23%)
	Mike Huckabee	32 (14%)	17 (9%)	49 (12%)
	Total	225	183	408

2007 General Elections:

This information last updated 11/07/2007 09:00am with unofficial information from Dauphin County Elections and Conewago poll watchers.

2007 Municipal General Conewago Township

Conewago Township Supervisor vote for one (6 yr term) - Jay Brandt - incumbent
Party	Candidate	Pct1	Pct2	Tot
Democrat	Joel Buckley (website)	85	97	183
Republican	Jay M. Brandt	233	156	390
-	Jason D. Parmer (write-in)	2	-	2

Long-time incumbent Jay M. Brandt has been re-elected.
The Precinct numbers were from poll-watchers. The totals from the County Election Bureau. There is a slight discrepancy.

Lower Dauphin School District School Director Region One Conewago Township & Londonderry Township vote for not more than two (4 yr term) Martin Siegel, Terry Whitmeyer - incumbents
Candidate	Totals
Sara Gellatly	1197
Todd M. Kreiser	1249

Newcomers Sara Gellatly and Todd M. Kreiser have won both been elected to 4 yr terms on the School Board.

Conewago Tax Collector vote for one (2 yr term) - Tina Schuman (deceased) - incumbent
Write-ins	29
Nancy Hitz 24, Loy 2, Rosenshine 1, Jason Parmer 1
Conewago Township Auditor vote for one (6 yr term) - Jay Book - incumbent
Write-ins	7
Galen Hitz 6, James Buck 1
Conewago Township Auditor vote for one (4 yr term) - Galen Hitz - incumbent
Write-ins	5
Elvin Hitz 1, Jay Book 1, Jason Parmer 1

Write-in totals are from the County Election Bureau. Individual numbers were from poll-watchers. There may be a slight discrepancy. Write-in candidates may decline election. In case of ties, a dice decides the election.

2007 Primary Elections:

This information last updated 05/17/2007 11:00am with unofficial information from Dauphin County Elections and Conewago poll watchers.

2007 Municipal Primary Conewago Township
Act 1 Lower Dauphin: Do you favor your School District imposing an additional 1.0% Earned Income Tax? The revenue generated from the tax will be used to reduce taxes on qualified owner occupied residential property and on qualified farm buildings by approximately $417. The current school district Earned Income Tax is .5%, and the combined municipal/school district rate is 1.0%. Vote Yes/No

-	Con1	Con2	Con Tot	LD Tot
Yes	81	60	141	1139
No	219	190	409	2415

The referendum was defeated.

Conewago Township Supervisor vote for one (6 yr term) - Jay Brandt - incumbent
	Republican			Democrat (write-in)			D+R Tot
Candidate	Pct1	Pct2	Tot	Pct1	Pct2	Tot
Joel Buckley (website)	73	77	150	15	14	29	179 31%
Jay M. Brandt	157	67	224	3	4	7	231 40%
Jason D.Parmer	58	95	153	7	5	12	165 29%

Long-time incumbent Jay M. Brandt will be the Republican nominee.
Joel Buckley will be the Democratic nominee.
The endorsed Republican candidate, challenger Jason Parmer failed to make the fall ballot.
Note: an earlier report had Democratic votes for Parmer and Brandt swapped. I regret the error.

Lower Dauphin School District School Director Region One Conewago Township & Londonderry Township vote for not more than two (4 yr term) Martin Siegel, Terry Whitmeyer - incumbents
	Republican							Democrat
Candidate	Con1	Con2	Lon1	Lon2	Lon3	Abs	Tot	Con1	Con2	Lon1	Lon2	Lon3	Abs	Tot
Sara Gellatly	147	122	185	168	68	4	694	37	32	39	38	24	1	171
Todd M. Kreiser	161	142	138	83	28	7	552	33	30	29	22	13	2	129
Terry L. Whitmeyer	104	102	105	114	63	10	488	20	25	17	28	17	3	110

Newcomers Sara Gellatly and Todd M. Kreiser, have won both Republican and Democratic nominations. Long-time incumbent and endorsed Republican candidate Terry Whitmeyer has lost his bid for re-election.

Conewago Township Auditor vote for one (6 yr term) - Jay Book - incumbent
Republican	Democrat
-	-
Conewago Township Auditor vote for one (4 yr term) - Galen Hitz - incumbent
Republican	Democrat
-	-

2006 Elections:

2005 Elections:

This information last updated 05/18/2005 from county machine totals. Does not include write-ins.

2005 Municipal Primary Conewago Township
Conewago Township Supervisor 6 year term - (incumbent: John Rochat)
	Republican			Democrat
Candidate	Pct1	Pct2	Tot	Pct1	Pct2	Tot
John Rochat	99	102	201	-	-	-
Conewago Township Tax Collector 4 year term - (incumbent: Tina M. Shuman)
Tina M. Shuman	117	103	220	-	-	-
Conewago Township Auditor 6 year term - (incumbent: W. Allen Keinard)
-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Magisterial District Judge 12-02-03 Boro of Middletown and Royalton and Township of Conewago and Londonderry ( year term - (incumbent: David H. Judy)
David H. Judy	99	83	1188	31	20	451
Jeremiah Murray Hetes	12	15	144	-	-	-

Lower Dauphin School District School Director Region One Conewago Township & Londonderry Township 4 year term - (incumbent: Renae Palladino)
	Republican						Democrat
Candidate	Con1	Con2	Lon1	Lon2	Lon3	Tot	Con1	Con2	Lon1	Lon2	Lon3	Tot
Renae M. Palladino	40	35	85	71	8	239	15	14	32	32	9	102
Linda Rambler	19	20	65	28	40	172	10	3	16	19	12	60
Todd M. Kreiser	46	36	23	45	8	158	-	-	-	-	-	-
Irvette Timms	6	9	5	7	0	27	5	8	9	5	3	21
Lower Dauphin School District School Director Region One Conewago Township & Londonderry Township 2 year term - (incumbent: Bobbi Butch)
	Republican						Democrat
Candidate	Con1	Con2	Lon1	Lon2	Lon3	Tot	Con1	Con2	Lon1	Lon2	Lon3	Tot
Bobbi J. Butch	31	31	61	73	6	202	18	8	14	36	10	86
Linda Rambler	29	15	73	43	36	196	9	8	26	14	9	66
Todd M. Kreiser	35	41	28	32	8	144	-	-	-	-	-	-
Irvette Timms	10	13	13	7	2	45	3	8	6	5	2	24

It would appear that the incumbents have been renominated in all cases. One possible exception is the two year School Director Republican race, where Butch's 6 vote lead is small enough that Rambler could possibly pull off an upset with write-ins.

2004 Elections:

2003 General Election

This page contains information only on township and school district elections. This information last updated 03/17/2004.
By write-in vote, Joel Buckley was elected to the positions of Township Auditor and Township Constable. One person can not hold those two positions at the same time. Buckley declined election as constable and accepted election as auditor.

Unofficial results as of 11/04/2003 9:00 pm.

2003 Municipal General Conewago Township
Conewago Township Supervisor vote for one
	Democrat	Republican
	Joel Buckley	Galen H. Shelly
1rst precinct	122 (31%)	276 (69%)
2nd precinct	151 (53%)	135 (47%)
Totals	273 (40%)	411 (60%)

This information last updated 06/30/2003.

2003 Municipal General Conewago Township
Conewago Township Supervisor vote for one
Republican	Democrat
Galen H. Shelly	Joel Buckley (website)
Conewago Township Tax Collector (2 year term) vote for one
Republican	Democrat
Tina M. Shuman	Tina M. Shuman
Conewago Township Auditor vote for one
Republican	Democrat
-	-
Conewago Township Constable vote for one
Republican	Democrat
-	-
Lower Dauphin School District School Director Region One Conewago Township & Londonderry Township vote for not more than two
Republican	Democrat
Anne E. Guenin	Anne E. Guenin
Terry L. Whitmeyer	Terry L. Whitmeyer

2003 Primary Election

The primary election was May 20, 2003.
Official Results as of May 30, 10am

2002 Referendum

In November 2002, a referendum initiated by a petition was conducted to decide whether to increase the number of township supervisors from 3 to 5. Click here to see an article discussing the referendum from the October 23, 2002, Hershey Chronicle.

Click here to see a lengthy article discussing the merits of five vs. three supervisors provided courtesy of the Pennsylvania Township News, September 2001 issue. It is a 760 KB Adobe PDF file.

The referendum was defeated. The number of Supervisors in Conewago Township remains at three.

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