Mark DeYoung again has been elected chairman of the Allegan County Board of Commissioners.

DeYoung, who represents Dorr and Leighton townships on the County Board, earned four votes to Commissioner Dean Kapenga’s three and Commissioner Don Black’s one. The election took place Jan. 15 at the board’s annual reorganizational meeting.

He will serve a two-year term because commissioners earlier agreed to make the chairmanship a two-year rather than one-year post.

DeYoung was first appointed to the board in February 2000 to succeed Ken Fein, who had died a month earlier. He won his first full two-year term on the board in the November general election of that year. He has been chairman since 2011.

PHOTO: Mark DeYoung