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Mayor, City of Somerset

Vote for: 1
Term: 4 years
Candidates: 2
Election: Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: The mayor is Somerset's chief executive: the mayor supervises city departments and employees, enforces city ordinances, presides over city council meetings and votes only to break a tie.

Nonpartisan city ballot. Open seat: Mayor Alan Keck is not seeking a third term. On the ballot in the Somerset Library 13, Huffaker Harvey's Hill 22 and Somerset City East 32 precincts and part of the Oak Hill-Saline 11, Caney Fork Vaught 31, Somerset Southeast 41, Pulaski East 42, Pulaski South 51 and Bourbon 52 precincts (sample ballot).

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William Hunt

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The gist

Pledges to actively recruit industrial, commercial and retail investment
Proposes a city compliance officer for addiction treatment facilities
Supports working with developers to build more housing
Pledges to refund residential trash can deposits

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Pledges to actively recruit industrial, commercial and retail investment
Hunt shares plans for Somerset at mayoral campaign kick-off
News coverage · Commonwealth Journal · Aug 19, 2026 · somerset-kentucky.com
“I believe that we must continue to recruit industrial, commercial and retail investment in Somerset”
Proposes a city compliance officer for addiction treatment facilities
Hunt shares plans for Somerset at mayoral campaign kick-off
News coverage · Commonwealth Journal · Aug 19, 2026 · somerset-kentucky.com
“Hunt pledged to create a city compliance officer program to help make sure treatment facilities are accountable to all relevant laws and ordinances”
Supports working with developers to build more housing
Hunt shares plans for Somerset at mayoral campaign kick-off
News coverage · Commonwealth Journal · Aug 19, 2026 · somerset-kentucky.com
“I believe we must continue to work with developers to continue to bring housing into our community”
Pledges to refund residential trash can deposits
Hunt shares plans for Somerset at mayoral campaign kick-off
News coverage · Commonwealth Journal · Aug 19, 2026 · somerset-kentucky.com
“Hunt said that city residents who have paid a deposit on a residential trash can will see those deposits returned to them”

Eddie Girdler

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The gist

Opposed the city's 2025 borrowing to cover operating debt
Opposes treating landfill leachate at the city sewer plant

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Opposed the city's 2025 borrowing to cover operating debt
Keck vs. Girdler: Discussing debt for the City of Somerset
News coverage · Commonwealth Journal · Jun 26, 2026 · somerset-kentucky.com
“He issued $14.9 million in debt in just March of 2025 to cover the operating debt.”
Opposes treating landfill leachate at the city sewer plant
Keck vs. Girdler: Discussing debt for the City of Somerset
News coverage · Commonwealth Journal · Jun 26, 2026 · somerset-kentucky.com
“We will never take leachate, and that sewer plant was never designed to take leachate”

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