A major shakeup has come to Benson as half of the City Council lost their seats in a Tuesday recall election.
According to unofficial results posted by the Cochise County Elections Department, Derrick Fenn, Ross Kaplowitch and Mark Boyle defeated incumbent council members Patrick Boyle, Darren Hayes and Levi Johnson. The results have not yet been certified by the City Council.
In December, a successful recall petition put Hayes, Boyle, Johnson and council member Nick Maldonado on the ballot.
The recall effort was part of a simmering backlash to an aluminum plant under construction by Aluminum Dynamics, Inc. in the city of 5,355 in western Cochise County.
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