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LYNN HAVEN — Lynn Haven voters have spoken. After all three races went to a runoff, voters took to the polls Tuesday to choose their new mayor and two commissioners.   Receiving 1,481 votes (50.46%), Jesse Nelson was elected Lynn Haven’s mayor, defeating Ellyne Fields by 27 votes. Jamie Warrick was elected to Seat 3 with 1,943 votes (66.61%) and incumbent Judy Tinder will retain her Seat 4 after garnering 1,730 votes (59.43%).   “I’m honored and humbled by the fact that the citizens of Lynn Haven elected me as the next mayor of this great city. I’m thankful for the gra...

/ Panama City Pastor Jesse Nelson won the Lynn Haven mayoral special runoff election on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Panama City Pastor Jesse Nelson will become Lynn Haven's first mayor since former Mayor Margo Anderson's arrest and subsequent resignation nearly a year ago. Panama City Pastor Jesse Nelson won Lynn Haven's mayoral race by a thin margin after Tuesday's special runoff election. Nelson eked out a victory against fellow first-time candidate Ellyne Fields, winning by less than 30 votes. Fields had secured the most votes in April's special election, in which there were three candidate...

/ Lynn Haven voters may cast their ballot in the special runoff elections for mayor and city commissioner at the town's Senior Center on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Lynn Haven voters are electing their next mayor Tuesday—almost a year after former mayor Margo Anderson stepped down following her arrest on public corruption charges. Bay County Elections Supervisor Mark Andersen says no candidate in last month’s mayoral and city commission races got enough votes to win outright — triggering three runoff elections: one for mayor and two for city commissioner seats. The Lynn Haven City Commissi...

LYNN HAVEN — The mayoral seat that has been left vacant for more than 100 days after the former mayor Margo Anderson was indicted along with the former city manager, city attorney, and community services director on dozens of fraud charges involving the mishandling of federal emergency dollars in the early hours following Hurricane Michael, is now being vied for by three new faces to the Lynn Haven Commission, each promising to restore the integrity of what it means to hold public office. "There definitely were some major problems, but much of that has been weeded out and we're looking t...