Ken Branner will remain Middletown’s mayor.
Voters convincingly gave the 68 year-old Branner a 14th term Monday. Branner defeated a pair of challengers, 18 year-old University of Delaware student Shlok Desai and 48 year-old Sanjay Patel, earning 940 of 1,176 votes cast. Branner was first elected mayor in 1989.
In Town Council races, incumbents Jason Faulkner and Andrew Chas won re-election to two-year terms. Howard Young Jr. won his first two year term on council.
And Robert Stout was elected to serve the remaining one-year of Councilwoman Robin Burgess’s term. Burgess died unexpectedly in December.