Incumbents hang on to Conway City Council seats. Here are election results
Conway’s City Council will remain consistent, as three incumbent candidates have secured their seats for another term.
In Conway, all three incumbents — Amanda Butler, William Goldfinch and Beth Helms — fought to keep their seats on the City Council, while challenger Tonya Robinson set her sights on securing a position for herself.
Unofficial results show that Butler received 28.85% of the votes, followed by Helms with 25.22% and Goldfinch with 23.58%.
Challenger Robinson received 21.60% of the votes.
Butler said she is “extremely elated and humbled” to have been re-elected, and is looking forward to working with Helms and Goldfinch.
“I was really filled with emotion,” she said of hearing the results on election night. “I was excited, I was humbled, I was just full.”
In her next term, Butler said she hopes to work on Conway’s economic development and securing competitive wages for city employees, so they can afford to both live and work in the city. She also noted she hopes to strengthen city infrastructure, particularly around traffic, which she said was “hectic” during this year’s City of Halloween celebrations. Additionally, she noted she hopes to work on handling the city’s population growth.
Helms and Goldfinch did not immediately respond for comment.
The three elected council members will serve four-year terms, earning $10,000 a year.
Council members Larry White, Justin Jordan, Julie Hardwick and Mayor Barbara Jo Blain were not up for re-election this year.
Helms is an Horry County commercial real estate appraiser in the Assessor’s Office, as well as a Conway High School and Clemson graduate. At Clemson, she majored in management with minors in finance and real estate. She has already served one year on the council previously.
She is FEMA certified with Federal Government for Disaster Relief.
Helms has coached girls’ softball at the Conway Recreation Department and has also served on the Conway Booster Club Board and the Riverfront Tennis committees. She is a member of the First Baptist Church of Conway and also attends The Rock Church.
Butler, who has also served one previous term on the council, has been a special education teacher at Conway High School since 2021. She also assists the coaching staff for the school’s girls’ basketball program.
For seven years beforehand, she worked for SC Vocational Rehabilitation as a transition counselor for transition aged youth.
She is a Clemson graduate with a degree in sociology and a minor in biological sciences. She also holds a master’s degree in divinity from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. She completed her post graduate studies at Francis Marion University in 2020, receiving a master’s degree in teaching-learning disabilities. She has one son.
Goldfinch has already served four terms on the council, and was first elected in 2010. In addition to his council post, he serves as mayor pro tem. He manages a financial advisory practice in the city with his wife. The couple has two sons.
Outside of the City Council, Goldfinch has held a number of leadership positions including being the past president of Billy’s Boys Inc., and past president and current secretary of the Waccamaw Sertoma Club, as well as a former board member of the Conway Chamber of Commerce and the Conway Planning Commission. He currently serves on the advisory board of Coastal Carolina National Bank and as vice president of the Conway High School Educational Foundation.
The Conway native graduated from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business in 2003. He is an active member of the First United Methodist Church.
This story was originally published November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM.
