ST. CLAIRSVILLE - An emergency levy for the Shadyside Local School School officially went down by five votes during the Belmont County Board of Elections' official and final count held during its regular meeting Monday.

The 5.4 mill levy was on the May 5 ballot for voters in the school district. The final count shows 803 total votes were counted in the election, with 404 voting against the levy and 399 voting for it, a difference of 0.62 percent.

County wide, the outcomes of all races remained the same after the official certification of the results.

In total for the county, 10 provisional ballots were rejected by the board. Eight of the provisional ballots were rejected because the voters were not registered to vote in the state of Ohio. One ballot was rejected because the person voted in the wrong precinct and another voter did not provide any identification. That person had 10 days to bring identification to the board office, but failed to do so.

All candidates running in the primary elections in the county were running as Democrats. The totals show William Deaton received 286 votes for president of Martins Ferry City Council. For the city's council at large, the final results for three to be nominated were: Kristine Davis - 221, Robert Hunker - 234, Jack Regis - 190, Paul Riethmiller - 268,

The race for Martins Ferry 1st Ward nomination have Robert Kranjnyak with 58 votes to William Weekley's 71.

In uncontested Martins Ferry nomination races, Bruce Shrodes received 58 votes for the 2nd Ward nomination, Russell Armstrong got 59 votes for the 3rd Ward, and Anthony Sarratore got 123 votes for the 4th Ward nomination.

For the Bellaire mayoral nomination, Vince DiFabrizio received 294 votes. Robert Dodrill received 105 votes and Jerry Fisher received 188 votes.

Bellaire Clerk-Treasurer Thomas Sable, who was unopposed in the election, received 428 votes. For the village council, four were nominated. The final count gives Lou Ann Bennett 216 votes, Cynthia DeVienzio 181 votes, Serge Gentile got 160 votes, Orphy M. Klempa Jr. 314 votes, Rickie Parker got 284 votes, Jim Piatt 314 votes and Jim Williams received 307 votes.

The Shadyside mayoral nomination went to Robert Newhart who received 394 votes to Edward L. Marling's 247 votes.

For Shadyside fiscal officer, Gerald Elliott received 507 votes in the uncontested race.

Six seats up for nomination for the village's council had six candidates. They were Robert N. Bell 464, Joseph R. Bittengle 412, David M. Gazdik II 308, Paul Melanko Jr. - 391, Timothy Merryman 487 and Dwayne D. Pielech 411.

For the nomination for one of the three seats on the Shadyside Village Board of Trustees of Public Affairs, the lone primary candidate, Chuck Wiley, received 364 votes.

The final count for the Bethesda Village Tax Levy shows 41 for the levy and 16 against. For the Shadyside Village Park District Levy, 252 voted for the levy and 437 voted against it. A Wheeling Township tax levy was renewed with 72 votes for and 31 against.

Belmont County voters living in the Switzerland of Ohio School District that is also in Monroe County voters, shows that in Belmont County 525 were for the bond/tax for new school buildings and 389 voted against it.

In total, the final results show 2914 cards cast out of 15,324 registered voters for the May 5 primary.

In other news, the Belmont County Board of Elections will be host to a "train the trainers" session in July.

Ann Block, field representative for Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office, requested the boards permission to use their offices for the training of election poll school instructors. The training will be for election officials from Belmont, Harrison, Carroll, Tuscarawas, Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble, Monroe, Morgan and Washington counties.

The board also gave the go ahead to contacted the Belmont County Department of Job and Family Services to see if they have four computer workstations for the board office. The board wants to replace old desks that were described as not being sturdy or large enough to hold computers. According to election board Director Bill Shubat, if the board has to purchase new desks, the cost will be fewer than $200 for all four workstations.

The next regular board meeting is scheduled for June 22 at 1 p.m.