THE GORGE — Unofficial election results are in for Hood River and Wasco counties, with official results to be certified no later than June 26 by 5 p.m.
Results will be updated by 5 p.m. today, May 28, to include ballots mailed with postmarks on or before election day. Another update will be issued June 11 to include resolved challenged ballots.
Below is a compilation of results from contested races in both counties.
The overall turnout for the May 20 election was 24.09%, with 4,003 ballots cast out of the 16,619 voters registered.
Library District board member (vote for 3)
Sara Marsden, 2,567 or 28.20%
Karen Bureke,r 2,151 or 23.63%
Megan Janik, 2,149 or 23.61%
Yesi Rojas, 1,456 or 15.99%
Pamela Tyler-Kroon, 724 or 7.95%
Write-in, 38 or 0.42%
Write-in, 11 or 0.12%
Write-in, 7 or 0.08%
Transportation District director, positions 1-4 (vote for 4)
Megan Ramey, 2,111 or 29.74%
Greg Pack, 2,016 or 28.40%
Matt Althoff, 2,719 or 38.30%
Write-in, 191 or 2.69%
Write-in, 40 or 0.56%
Write-in, 16 or 0.23%
Write-in, 6 or 0.08%
Columbia Gorge ESD director, zone 4 (vote for 1)
Douglas Nelson, 2,894 or 99.04%
Write-in, 28 or 0.96%
Columbia Gorge ESD director, zone 7 (vote for 1)
Paul Zastrow. 838 or 98.47%
Write-in, 13 or 1.53%
Mt. Hood Community College director, zone 1 (vote for 1)
Larry Morgan, 105 or 99.06%
Write-in, 1 or 0.94%
Mt. Hood Community College director, zone 2 (vote for 1)*
William Miller, 0 or 0.00%
Write-in, 0 or 0.00%
*0 ballots received of 7 registered voters
HRCSD School board member, at large (vote for 1)
Monica Romero, 2,132 or 59.37%
Mark Bauman, 855 or 23.81%
Dan Goldstein, 587 or 16.35%
Write-in, 17 or 0.47%
HRCSD board member, position 2 (vote for 1)
Rich Truax, 655 or 98.79%
Write-in, 8 or 1.21%
HRCSD board member, position 4 (vote for 1)
Jesenia "Jese" Robles, 245 or 98.79%
Write-in, 3 or 1.21%
HRCSD board member, position 6 (vote for 1)
Brandi Sheppard, 459 or 99.35%
Write-in, 3 or 0.65%
Port of Cascade Locks commissioner, position 4 (vote for 1)
Travis T. Gann, 132 or 100.00%
Port of Cascade Locks commissioner, position 5 (vote for 1)
Ted Dodd, 115 or 99.14%
Write-in, 1 or 0.86%
Port of Hood River commissioner, position 1 (vote for 1)
Ben Sheppard, 2,599 or 97.56%
Write-in, 65 or 2.44%
Port of Hood River commissioner, position 2 (vote for 1)
Heather Gehring, 1,641 or 53.77%
Michael S. McElwee, 1,378 or 45.15%
Write-in, 33 or 1.08%
Port of Hood River commissioner, position 3 (vote for 1)
Kathryn M. Thomas, 2,530 or 73.95%
Karen Ford, 872 or 25.49%
Write-in, 19 or 0.56%
HRV Parks and Rec District board member (vote for 2)
Brian Hackett, 2,668 or 49.18%
Jace Castello, 2,695 or 49.68%
Write-in, 45 or 0.83%
Write-in, 17 or 0.31%
Parkdale Rural Fire District director (vote for 2)
Jeanne Sreenan, 359 or 47.99%
Paul Zastrow, 373 or 49.87%
Write-in, 16 or 2.14%
West Side Rural Fire District director (vote for 2)
Jim Gray, 779 or 46.73%
Jeff Hasegawa, 881 or 52.85%
Write-in, 5 or 0.30%
Write-in, 2 or 0.12%
West Side Rural Fire District director, unexpired term (vote for 1
John W. Beeman, 832 or 99.52%
Write-in, 4 or 0.48%
Wy’East Rural Fire District director (vote for 3)
Joey Sheirbon, 389 or 32.69%
Reetinder Dick Virk, 387 or 32.52%
Craig Mallon, 402 or 33.78%
Write-in, 7 or 0.59%
Write-in, 3 or 0.25%
Write-in, 2 or 0.17%
Odell Sanitation director, positions 1-2 (vote for 2)
James M. Jans, 114 or 49.78%
Bob Duddles, 112 or 48.91%
Write-in, 2 or 0.87%
Write-in, 1 or 0.44%
Parkdale Sanitation District director, positions 1-2 (vote for 2)
Judy Zimmerman, 26 or 30.59%
Brian Connors, 44 or 51.76%
Write-in, 14 or 16.47%
Write-in, 1 or 1.18%
Crystal Springs Water District commissioners 1-2 (vote for 2)
Craig J. Ortega, 684 or 51.12%
Eric Cederstam, 648 or 48.43%
Write-in, 5 or 0.37%
Write-in, 1 or 0.07%
Ice Fountain Water District commissioners 1-3 (vote for 3)
Naaman Smith, 784 or 31.31%
Catherine Hamada, 861 or 34.38%
Herbie Annala, 841 or 33.59%
Write-in, 11 or 0.44%
Write-in, 5 or 0.20%
Write-in, 2 or 0.08%
Ballot Measure 26-258
Yes :77 49.68%
No: 78 50.32%
Statewide:
The overall turnout for the May 20 election was 22.46%, with 4,233ballots cast out of the 18,845 voters registered.
Central Oregon Community College director, zone 1 (vote for 1)
Joe Krenowicz, 36 or 100.00%
Columbia Gorge Community College director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Nathanael Stice, 2,617 or 99.39%
Write-in, 16 or 0.61%
Columbia Gorge Community College director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Darcy Long, 2,577 or 98.17%
Write-In, 48 or 1.83%
Columbia Gorge Community College director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Kim Morgan, 2,585 or 99.65%
Write-in, 9 or 0.35%
Columbia Gorge Community College director, position 7 (vote for 1)
Lucille Begay, 2,627 or 99.43%
Write-in, 15 or 0.57%
Columbia Gorge ESD director, zone 2 (vote for 1)
Stacey Holeman, 686 or 99.85%
Write-in, 1 or 0.15%
Columbia Gorge ESD director, zone 3 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 50 or 100.00%
North Central ESD director, zone 4 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 0 or 0.00%
North Central ESD director, zone 7 at large (vote for 1)
Jim Doherty, 1 or 100.00%
Dufur School District 29 director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Tina Coleman, 220 or 43.74%
Anne Kelly, 278 or 55.27%
Write-in, 5 or 0.99%
Dufur School District 29 director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Sean Egeland, 298 or 55.81%
Stan Ashbrook, 236 or 44.19%
Dufur School District 29 director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Joseph Harvey, 244 or 49.09%
Dave Beeson, 252 or 50.70%
Write-in, 1 or 0.20%
Fossil School board, director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Tyler Wright, 1 or 100.00%
Fossil School board, director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Sarah Hartenstein, 1 or 100.00%
Kyle L. Hand 0 or 0.00%
Fossil School board, director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Joe McNeill, 1 or 100.00%
NWCSD 21 director, zone 1 (vote for 1)
Betsy Hege, 254 or 97.69%
Write-in, 6 or 2.31%
NWCSD 21 director, zone 4 (vote for 1)
John T. Nelson, 160 or 44.82%
David Polehn, 194 or 54.34%
Write-in, 3 or 0.84%
NWCSD 21 director, zone 5 (vote for 1)
Shannon Wilkinson, 119 or 26.21%
Kevin A. Kramer, 333 or 73.35%
Write-in, 2 or 0.44%
NWCSD 21 director, zone 7 (vote for 1)
Katie Kelley, 331 or 58.69%
Steve Lawrence, 230 or 40.78%
Write-in, 3 or 0.53%
Sherman County School District director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Seth von Borstel, 2 or 100.00%
Sherman County School District director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 0 or 0.00%
Sherman County School District director, position 24(vote for 1)
Jeremy S. Lanthorn, 2 or 100.00%
South Wasco County School District 1 director, zone 1 (vote for 1)
Justin Gotham, 425 or 99.53%
Write-in, 2 or 0.47%
South Wasco County School District 1 director, zone 3 (vote for 1)
Nancy Salas Juarez, 295 or 57.06%
Paul Koerschgen, 217 or 41.97%
Write-in, 5 or 0.97%
South Wasco County School District 1 director, zone 4 (vote for 1)
Greg Wiedeman, 226 or 47.28%
Shelly Cocco, 251 or 52.51%
Write-in, 1 or 0.21%
South Wasco County School District 1 director, zone 6 (vote for 1)
Kevin Duling, 359 or 60.95%
Elizabeth Unti, 230 or 39.05%
Juniper Flat RFPD director, position 3 (vote for 1)
(Butch) Paul Savery, 80 or 100.00%
Juniper Flat RFPD director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Brian Silvey, 63 or 76.83%
Casey Ford, 19 or 23.17%
Juniper Flat RFPD director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Jerry Duling, 88 or 100.00%
Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Mike Erland, 1,446 or 58.03%
Corey A. Case, 1,044 or 41.89%
Write-in, 2 or 0.08%
Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Chris Schanno, 1,439 or 56.83%
David Jacobs, 1,092 or 43.13%
Write-in, 1 or 0.04%
Mosier Fire District director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Rob Miller, 149 or 99.33%
Write-in, 1 or 0.67%
Mosier Fire District director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Todd Reeves, 148 or 98.01%
Write-in, 3 or 1.99%
Mosier Fire District director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Steven Fisher, 141 or 98.60%
Write-in, 2 or 1.40%
Tygh Valley RFPD director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 3 or 100.00%
Tygh Valley RFPD director, position 3 (vote for 1)
A J Mead, 79 or 98.75%
Write-in, 1 or 1.25%
Tygh Valley RFPD director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Jan Bazala, 72 or 100.00%
Wamic Rural Fire Protection District director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Neil Senger, 152 or 100.00%
Wamic Rural Fire Protection District director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Greg Weast, 147 or 100.00%
Wamic Rural Fire Protection District director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Cindy Koch, 153 or 98.71%
Write-in, 2 or 1.29%
Pine Grove Water District director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 11 or 100.00%
Pine Grove Water District director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 9 or 100.00%
Pine Grove Water District director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 10 or 100.00%
Tooley Water District director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Larry Russ, 9 or 100.00%
Tooley Water District director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Bart Vervloet, 7 or 100.00%
Tygh Valley Water District director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Sam Cobb, 45 or 95.74%
Write-in, 2 or 4.26%
Tygh Valley Water District director, position 5 (vote for 1)
A J Mead, 40 or 100.00%
Wamic Water and Sanitary Authority director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 1 or 100.00%
Wamic Water and Sanitary Authority director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Robert A. Goleman, 25 or 100.00%
Wamic Water and Sanitary Authority director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Glenn Crawford, 19 or 100.00%
Dufur Recreation District director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Stan Ashbrook, 257 or 91.79%
Write-in, 23 or 8.21%
Dufur Recreation District director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Peggy Skiles, 255 or 89.47%
Write-in, 30 or 10.53%
Dufur Recreation District director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Shawn Skiles, 258 or 90.21%
Write-in, 28 or 9.79%
Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Rachel Carter, 1,608 or 99.44%
Write-in, 9 or 0.56%
Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Marcus Swift, 1,576 or 99.12%
Write-in, 14 or 0.88%
Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation director, position 5 (vote for 1)
Annette Byers, 1650 or 99.52%
Write-in, 8 or 0.48%
South Wasco Parks and Recreation director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Corrie Lemon, 450 or 99.78%
Write-in, 1 or 0.22%
South Wasco Parks and Recreation director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Stephanie Tyrer, 390 or 99.49%
Write-in, 2 0.51%
Port of The Dalles director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Ed Devlaeminck, 2,170 or 99.09%
Write-in, 20 or 0.91%
Port of The Dalles director, position 3 (vote for 1)
John D. Willer, 2,125 or 98.84%
Write-in, 25 or 1.16%
White River Health District director, position 1 (vote for 1)
Allison J. Bechtol, 439 or 99.77%
Write-in, 1 or 0.23%
White River Health District director, position 2 (vote for 1)
Melissa Napoli, 422 or 99.53%
Write-in, 2 or 0.47%
White River Health District director, position 3 (vote for 1)
Write-in, 23 or 100.00%
White River Health District director, position 4 (vote for 1)
Ashley Woodside Biesenthal, 459 or 99.35%
Write-in, 3 or 0.65%
White River Health District director, position 5 (vote for 1)
David Farris, 417 or 100.00%
Measure 16-114
Yes: 40 or 74.07%
No: 14 or 25.93%
Measure 33-113
Yes: 316 or 80.82%
No: 75 or 19.18%
Measure 33-114
Yes: 442 or 63.78%
No: 251 or 36.22%
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