While Butler will have a new mayor next year, the rest of the city council will remain the same.

Incumbent candidates Richard Schontz Jr. and Kathy Kline were re-elected during Tuesday’s general election.

Schontz and Kline, both Democrats, received 1,141 and 909 votes, respectively, edging the independent challenger Bill Criley, who received 763 votes.

“I’m really looking forward to continuing to serve on council, and I appreciate all the support,” Schontz said.

Schontz will be serving in his second term on council, while Kline will be entering her third.

“I’m very pleased,” Kline said about being re-elected. “The community has spoken, and I will continue to work with council to do what’s best for the community.”

Criley, who also lost a race for a council seat in 2011, said he was disappointed in the loss, but wished both Schontz and Kline luck.

“I gave it a shot,” he said.

Criley said one of the main reasons why he ran was to give the city’s residents a choice on who will represent them.

He wouldn’t completely rule out running again, but said it would be unlikely.

“I’m getting too old for this,” he joked.

Both Schontz and Kline said they are excited to help continue revitalizing the city.

Schontz said he is particularly looking forward to continuing to help remove blight from the city.

“We really want to focus on cleaning up the neighborhoods,” he said.

Kline said there are several programs she wants to see through.

“I would like to see some projects I help start continue,” she said. “The spray park is particularly important to me.”

Both Schontz and Kline also welcomed newly-elected mayor Tom Donaldson to council.

“With politics, you never know what is going to happen,” Schontz said. “I worked well with Maggie and I’m sure I’ll work fine with Tom.”

Criley said he was interested to see how Donaldson will do as well.

“If he works half as hard as mayor as he did campaigning, he’ll do a great job,” he said. “Because he put a lot of work and a lot of effort into that campaign.”