Man who died re-elected mayor of Missouri town

ST. LOUIS (AP) - It’s almost a political comeback.
   
Winfield, Mo. Mayor Harry Stonebraker has scored a landslide victory, from his grave.
   
Voters in the small town re-elected Winfield to a fourth term Tuesday. The election came about a month after his death.
   
Ballots had already been printed and absentee voting had already begun when Stonebraker died of a heart attack. He won easily in Tuesday’s general election with 206 votes, or 90 percent. Alderman Bernie Panther got the other 23 votes.
   
The election recalled Missouri’s 2000 U.S. Senate race, when Democrat Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash just weeks before the November election, but still defeated incumbent Republican John Ashcroft.
   
Aldermen will appoint a mayor to serve until a special election.