2025 Board of Directors Elections
As a member-owner of CORE Electric Cooperative, you have a voice. Members within each district elect a fellow member to serve a four-year term on CORE’s Board of Directors and represent their interests in CORE business and policies. In 2025, the board seats for Districts 3, 5 and 7 are up for election.
To be eligible to become or remain a director, a person must:
- be an individual 18 years of age or older;
- be a member of the cooperative;
- purchase electric energy within his or her director district; and
- not be a current employee of the cooperative, or formerly employed by the cooperative within the past five years.
Eligible candidates who want to run for CORE’s Board of Directors must submit a written petition signed by at least 15 members and submitted to CORE 60 to 90 days prior to election (Jan. 26 to Feb. 25). The petition signature of a spouse of a member is not counted unless the spouse is a joint member and the other joint member has not signed, or the spouse is a member in his or her own right.
Electronic voting will open and printed ballots will be delivered not less than 30 days before the annual meeting to members in any district in which there is a contested election. Eligible voters who do not vote electronically or via mail can vote in-person Saturday, April 26, between 9 and 10 a.m, at CORE’s headquarters in Sedalia. Voting by proxy is not permitted in director elections.
Elections schedule
Jan. 26, 2025
First day to submit director nomination petitions
Feb. 25, 2025
Last day to submit director nomination petitions
March 12, 2025
Last day to submit nominee bios and positions statements for inclusion in ballots
Late March 2025
Electronic voting opens; printed ballots mailed to members who do not opt into electronic voting
April 25, 2025
Deadline for all electronic and mail ballots to reach the independent election vendor
April 26, 2025
Annual meeting and election
Additional election resources — including the nomination petition form — will be available in January on this page, and more information will be published in future editions of The Outlet member newsletter.
Questions can be sent to elections@core.coop.
2023 Board of Directors Elections Results
Director elections in Districts 1, 2, 4 and 6 took place in 2023. An independent election vendor, Survey Ballots and Systems, conducted the elections, and results were announced at the CORE annual meeting April 22, 2023.
District 1
Mike Kempe 1,438 (44.4%)
Philip Varley 1,325 (40.9%)
Maurice “Mo” Klefeker 278 (8.6%)
Phil Rogers 198 (6.1%)
District 2
Ron Kilgore 1,922 (62.0%)
Dennis Finn 595 (19.2%)
Joe Berry 584 (18.8%)
District 4
Tim White 1,426 (52.1%)
Randy Reed 696 (25.4%)
James McGannon 614 (22.4%)
District 6
Robert Graf ran unopposed; ballots were not printed or mailed.