THE LOOP — Absentee ballot results continued to trickle in Saturday, with incumbent aldermen gaining some votes.
No leads have changed, according to numbers from Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners.
Saturday's count was a boon to Ald. John Pope (10th), who trimmed another 10 votes off Susan Sadlowski Garza's lead, leaving her just 33 votes ahead.
In the 43rd Ward, which had the third-most requests for absentee ballots in the city, Ald. Michele Smith widened her advantage over challenger Caroline Vickrey with an additional 24 votes compared to Vickrey's 19. She now leads by 86 votes.
Smith led Election Night, Vickrey pushed ahead by six with the first updated returns Wednesday, and Smith reclaimed the lead with the first absentee update Thursday.
Other tight races in the 16th, 21st, and 31st Wards did not budge much.
Both Ald. Toni Foulkes (15th) and Stephanie Coleman gained three votes, leaving Foulkes with her 48-vote lead.
Ald. Howard Brookins Jr. (21st) and his challenger Marvin McNeil gained four votes each, leaving his lead at 286 votes.
Ald. Ray Suarez (31st) trimmed just one vote off challenger Milly Santiago's lead Saturday, picking up one while Santiago took none. Santiago is now 86 votes ahead.
By law, the Board of Election Commissioners allows two weeks for absentee ballots to trickle in through the mail if they've been postmarked by April 6, the day before this week's election. Final ballots will be tallied April 21, with the board expecting to certify and proclaim the results April 23
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