Official election results in

The Lake County election office was able to certify last week's election results, and they are now official. However, election officials were not able to get official results from other counties, which would affect some Senate and House District results here in Lake County.

In our election story in last week's Leader, we reported that current Justice of the Peace Chuck Wall was re-elected. However, both Wall and Lonnie Dean Erickson, who finished with the second largest vote total for the Justice of the Peace race, will be on the November ballot because the Justice of the Peace race was non-partisan, and featured four candidates. That was the only race in last week's primary in which the two top vote getters will be on the November ballot. We regret any confusion we caused.

The following are the official election results for Lake County only. We will try to get final Senate and House results by next week for those districts that cover more than one county, but other counties were slow in providing those results. As of presstime, only the results for Democratic candidates in Flathead County were officially available.

Of the 14,282 active, registered voters in the county, 6,381 voted.

Republicans

Public Service Commissioner District 5 — Steve Vick 471; Mike Taylor 2,056; Fred Leistiko 215; Rory Horning 269; John M. Campbell 544

Senate District 5 — Verdell Jackson 204; Donald E. Loranger 214; Daniel L. Griffin 99

House District 9 — Bill Jones 247; David G. Carlson 190

Lake County Sheriff — Bill Barron 1,774; Lucky Larson 2,278

Lake County Superintendent of Schools — Gale Decker 2,694; Roy Casey Love 991

County Treasurer/Assessor — Patti Duford Kugler 2,214; Lester Lundeen 1,391

GOP candidates who had no opposition and were automatically nominated were:

House District 11 — Janna Taylor 1,255

County Commissioner District 3 — Paddy Trusler 3,174

County Attorney — Mitch Young 2,937

Democrats

House District 12 — Jeanne Windham 476; Phonacelle Shapel 186

State Senate District 8 — S. Kevin Howlett 209, Carol C. Juneau 261

Unopposed candidates

Democratic candidates who had no opposition and were automatically nominated were:

Public Service Commissioner District 5 — Ken Toole 1,725

House District 9 — Edd Blackler 214

House District 11 — Denise Peterson 558

House District 15 — Joey Jayne 424

County Clerk and Recorder/Auditor/Public Administrator/Surveyor — Ruth Hodges 1,706

Non-Partisan contests

Lake County Justice of the Peace — Chuck Wall 3,809; Dennis Lewis 387; Lonnie Dean Erickson 938; J. David Bennett 411

District Court Judge, District 20, #2 — Deborah "Kim" Christopher 4,927

Polson Municipal Special Levy

Levy up to 19.5 mils to raise approximately $130,000

For the Levy 603

Against the Levy 382