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Milligan Defeats Peck in State Representative District 53 Race

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published March 31, 2020 at 9:19 PM CDT

The March 31st Republican primary runoff for the State Representative District 53 race ends with a victory for Lake City Mayor Jon Milligan. Milligan defeated Cole Peck with an unofficial vote count of 624-290. A total of 914 votes were cast in the election. 73 votes were cast absentee, 494 early votes, and 347 votes were cast on Tuesday. Milligan will face Democrat Shawn Only in the November election for the seat.

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Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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