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Here are the numbers, according to the Cook County Clerk's website at 9:55 p.m., of contested elections for Morton Grove voters:

1,061

* Write-in candidates Renee Miller and  Donald India also campaigned for the MGPL trustee seat and Golf 67 board seat respectively, but Cook County has not released their votes. 

Live Blogging after the polls closed at 7 p.m.

7:20 p.m. Supporters of the Action Party hang out at the party's headquarters on Dempster Street, waiting for candidates to return from campaigning around the neighborhood.

Action Party organizers say they expect results within an hour or so.

7:30 p.m. Caucus Party members start to gather at El Sol restaurant on Dempster Street, about one block west of the Action Party members.

7:33 p.m. According to the Cook County Clerk's website, none of the results for the 17 precincts have been recorded for village trustee or library trustee positions.

7:36 p.m. 5 of 17 precincts have reported their results: Shel Marcus and John Thill lead the village trustee ballot with 22 percent each; Catherine Peters and Paul Berg lead the library trustee ballot with 25 percent and 24 percent respectively.

7:40 p.m. 10 of 17 precincts have reported their results with Shel Marcus at 18.4 percent; John Thill at 18.8 percent; Maria Toth at 18.1 percent; Georgianne Brunner at 14.5 percent; Rita Minx at 14.9 percent and John Pietron at 15 percent.

For the library trustees race, Catherine Peters has 25.1 percent; Laura Frisch has 14.7 percent; Mark Albers has 23.9 percent; Lawrence Levin has 11.7 percent and Paul Berg has 24.4 percent of the vote. For the two-year term, Callimag has 58.4 percent and Fahy has 41.6 percent of the vote.

7:46 p.m. For the school board of education seats at Maine Township 207, 82 of 123 precincts have reported results. Donna Pellar-Ryden has 23.7 percent of the vote; Joann Bream as 23.2 percent of the vote; Eric Poders has 14.8 percent of the vote; Marijo Bustos has 11.8 percent of the vote and Sean O'Brien Sullivan has 26.3 percent of the vote.

7:54 p.m. The Caucus Party group at El Sol has grown, as candidates look over the lists of voting results. According to the county clerk's website, 13 of 17 precincts have reported their results: for the village board seats, the percentages are currently Marcus at 18.2 percent; Thill at 18.3 percent; Toth at 17.3 percent; Brunner at 15.3 percent; Minx at 15.4 percent and Pietron at 15.3 percent.

For the library trustee positions, Peters is at 24.8 percent; Frisch is at 15.1 percent; Albers is at 23.6 percent; Levin is at 12.1 percent; Berg is at 24.2 percent. For the two-year seats, Calimag is at 57.3 percent and Fahy is at 42.6 percent.

8:10 p.m. The county clerk's website is posting results for 15 of 17 precincts, with 1,355 votes for Marcus; 1,358 votes for Thill; 1,285 votes for Toth; 1,106 votes for Brunner, 1,099 votes for Minx and 1,119 votes for Pietron.

For the library trustee positions, the votes thus far total up at 1,607 votes for Peters, 981 votes for Frisch; 1,524 votes for Albers; 782 votes for Levin and 1,565 votes for Berg. For the two-year seats, Calimag has 1,346 votes and Fahy has 975 votes.

8:28 p.m. Loud cheers at Action Party headquarters; Trustee Bill Grear announces that all three candidates have majority in the election seats for village board elections. The website on the Cook County Clerk's office still has results from 15 of 17 precincts listed.

8:35 p.m. Action Party candidates continue to work out the numbers. Precinct 59 has a malfunctioning computer and the county officials are counting the votes by hand, meaning the official results are delayed until Wednesday morning. Regardless, with the final totals from the other 16 precincts, the numbers come in with a majority for Action Party candidates for all three trustee seats.

The difference from the Action Party's lowest (Toth at 1036) and the Caucus Party's highest (Pietron at 980) is 56 votes, which statistically is unlikely to be recovered by Precinct 59.

According to the numbers from Cook County, as relayed by Morton Grove Clerk and Action Party member Tony Kalogerakos:

Marcus: 1088

Thill: 1105

Toth: 1036

Brunner: 939

Minx: 936

Pietron: 980

9:06 p.m. B-PAC candidates eat chocolate cake and drink coffee as they tally the precinct votes on a big poster board. 

The projected winners for the six year-term, MGPL trustee seats, according to the Cook County Clerk website (highlighted in bold), are Catherine Peters, Mark Albers and Paul Berg. For the two year-term, the MGPL trustee seat winner is projected to be David Calimag.

9:15 p.m. The projected election winners for the four year-term, School Board of Education for Golf District 67 are Samina Hussain, Robert Clark and Louise Karlin. For the two year-term, the board seat is projected to go to Richard Toth.

9:30 p.m. Morton Grove Patch is collecting reactions from candidates and will be assembling charts with the current numbers.