- December 14, 2025
Unofficial results: Linda Provencher was elected mayor, Joe McGrew city commissioner.
At about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office reported that Linda Provencher and Joy McGrew had been elected as new mayor and city commissioner of Flagler Beach, respectively.
The results were unofficial, pending a Canvassing Board meeting Feb. 10, when absentee ballots will be counted.
Provencher, a 24-year city resident and former city commissioner, received 890 votes, beating out J. NeJame, with 648 votes.
McGrew, a 28-year city resident and former city commissioner, had 790 votes, beating Sandra Mason, who had 737.
Polls were open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Early voting ran from Saturday, Jan. 21, to Saturday, Jan. 28.
Of 3,706 registered Flagler Beach voters, 1,580 ballots were cast, or 43.6% of the population.
“I think the turnout was strong,” said Linda Provencher, who spent almost all day at City Hall, even though she was suffering from the flu. Too sick to celebrate, she still has plans for what to do in office: “(I) just really want to reach out to the public and the people who didn’t support me, get their trust. (I want to) show them that I will represent all of them, even the ones who didn’t vote for me.”
By percentage, the city’s rate of voter turnout came in stronger than that for the county’s Republican Presidential Primary, which brought 8,653 voters to the polls, out of 24,322 eligible, a 35.6% turnout.
In the primary, Mitt Romney took a lead of 46.63%, by tallying 5,042 votes. Newt Gingrich brought in 3,765 votes, claiming 34.82% of the turnout, and Rick Santorum earned 1,358 votes, which amounts to 12.56% of the vote.
Contact Mike Cavaliere at [email protected].
