Luke Collins was elected mayor of Celina on Tuesday, June 3, securing 54.91% of the vote in the 2025 City of Celina Election.
Collins garnered 291 of the 530 ballots cast for mayor. Willie Kerr placed second with 174 votes, or 32.83%, while Justin Rich received 63 votes, or 11.89%. Two write-in votes accounted for 0.38%.
In the race for aldermanic positions, Micheal Boles, Stacy Mills and Lester Kenny Westmoreland emerged as the top vote-getters among the 1,324 ballots cast. Boles led with 240 votes (18.13%), followed by Mills with 230 votes (17.37%) and Westmoreland with 186 votes (14.05%).
Other candidates for alderman included Jerry Dale with 145 votes (10.95%), Timmy Boles with 142 votes (10.73%), Patti Spears with 135 votes (10.20%), Kenneth M. Dale with 125 votes (9.44%), and Christopher N. Hayes with 123 votes (9.29%). A total of three write-in votes were also recorded for alderman.
Overall voter turnout in the election was 55.95% of Celina’s 958 registered voters.
The election saw 128 ballots cast on Election Day, 107 absentee ballots and 301 votes during early voting. All five pieces of election equipment from the single reported precinct functioned as expected.
