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Ellis takes 62 percent in Union Parish as 59 percent vote against the road tax
FARMERVILLE — Both the district judge’s race and the Union Parish road-tax proposition were expected by many to be close. The Nov. 3 returns showed otherwise.
In Union Parish, Phillip Ellis received 4,314 votes to Lewis A. Jones’s 2,647, giving Ellis 62 percent of the vote. He carried 26 of the parish’s 29 precincts and won 61 percent districtwide across Union and Lincoln parishes. Ellis will succeed Judge Thomas W. “Tommy” Rogers in January 2027. Judge Rogers is retiring after distinguished service on the Third Judicial District Court bench.
The 12-mill road and bridge tax lost by 1,255 votes, with 4,260 against and 3,005 in favor, according to complete unofficial returns. That’s 59 percent against. It carried only four precincts — 04, 09, 13 and 15. For the Police Jury members who actively campaigned for the tax, the Gazette reads that result as a resounding vote of no confidence in the case they made for it.