Port Gibson Mayor Fred Reeves bested two opponents in the city’s Democratic primary election Tuesday, while a runoff will determine the candidate for Ward 6 alderman.

Reeves will be unopposed in the Dec. 6 general election. He garnered 60 percent of the vote, nabbing 442 votes to Kenneth D. Ross’ 190, or 26 percent, and Anthony Kelly’s 101, or 14 percent, said city clerk Vanessa Schaifer.

Four candidates for alderman in Ward 6 split 93 votes, Schaifer said. The two top finishers, incumbent Michael White, who had 38 votes or 41 percent, and Jacqueline Watson, 30 votes or 32 percent, will meet in a runoff Nov. 29. Other challengers were Sharonda Jackson, who received 13 votes for 14 percent, and James “Baba” Scott, who took 12 votes for 13 percent.

The winner will face independent Cindy Hamilton, Schaifer said.

Like Reeves, many of the primary winners will be unopposed in the general election, but in Ward 5, Democrat challenger Gale Compton will face incumbent Leslie Case, an independent. Compton received 77 percent of Tuesday’s vote, garnering 84 votes to beat Grover Banks, who had 25 votes or 23 percent.

Two other incumbents, Ward 2’s Vera L. Johnson and Ward 4’s Marvin Ratliff, were defeated.

In Ward 2, Jacqueline Skinner Robinson received 85 votes or 67 percent to oust Johnson, who had 42 votes or 33 percent, and in Ward 4, Clarence Scutter garnered 70 votes for 55 percent to beat Ratliff’s 58 votes or 45 percent.

The closest race was for Ward 3 alderman, where incumbent Kenneth Davis beat challenger Thelma Torrain Robinson, 62 to 56 votes, or 52.5 percent to 47.5 percent.

Davis faces a general election challenge from independent Fred Neal, said Schaifer.

In Ward 1, Lula B. Buck won with 78 votes or 57 percent, beating Nathanael Conway, who had 60 votes or 43 percent. The incumbent, Eddie Walls, Jr., did not run for re-election.

Reeves was first elected four years ago and campaigned for re-election on a platform of financial integrity and a promise to protect the taxpayers’ money from spending abuses.

The city has been troubled in recent years by money problems, with the board of aldermen repeatedly having to borrow to pay electric bills and other operating expenses, which Reeves has opposed.