Tuesday's city charter election results are now official after the votes were canvassed on Monday by the City Commissioner Shelly Brophy and Nacogdoches Mayor Roger Van Horn.

Technically speaking, Van Horn's proper title is and has been 'commissioner at large,' but because voters had their say last week, his informal title of mayor will soon be an official one when the city commission meets on Nov. 17, where it will then be known as the city council.

Brophy and three other city commissioners will also be officially titled as city council members.

The nine city propositions that voters passed on election day dealt mostly with organizational matters and were not as controversial or as potentially impactive as Proposition 10 which failed.

Prop. 10 would have amended the city charter to allow initiatives and referendums of ordinances passed by the soon-to-be renamed city council if they were petitioned by 15 percent or 2,500 registered voters, whichever would be greater. And as predicted by some of its opponents, Prop. 10 was defeated with far less votes that would have been necessary to call for a referendum or an initiative in the first place.

There were a total of 1,177 votes on Proposition 10 with 536 for and 641 against. The turnout was about 7.5 percent of the city's 15,682 registered voters.

Noting the relatively decent turnout numbers considering there were no political offices at stake on Tuesday's ballot, Van Horn said that Prop. 10 was enough to bring the voters out.

"We're it not for (Prop. 10), that would not have been the case. That's what people were interested in," Van Horn said at Monday's canvassing. "People felt strongly about it either way. That's what had been in the news, and that's what the conversations had been about. I don't think that anyone was as interested in the other nine as much as they were in (Prop. 10)."

Van Horn, who has remained publicly neutral on Prop. 10, also said "the process was clear and was done well" said that he thought the election process was a good thing for the city to go through.

As allowed by the state constitution, city voters will not have a chance to add initiatives and referendums to the city charter for another two years.

County election results are expected to be canvassed on Tuesday.