The the Juneau’s most recent election results, two incumbent Assembly candidates grew their lead already substantial as the race to win two seats in the area tightened. The news on Friday didn’t alter anything about the state of one race.
The initial count of Wednesday morning revealed that voters were against this $27 million bond idea for the construction of a new city hall, but only by 112 votes. This margin has risen to 394 votes, 3,395 in favor and 3,789 against.
Candidates running for incumbents in Juneau Assembly Districts 1, 2 and 3 had significantly ahead of their opponents when they first tallied their votes, but the updated revealed the gap growing.
in the District 1 election, Alicia Hughes-Skandijs’ advantage against Joe Geldhof grew from 839 to 1,226 votes. In the race for District 2 Christine Woll’s advantage in the race against David Morris has grown from 1,391 votes to 2,019 votes.
The race for the whole of the region, in which 10 candidates are competing to win two Assembly seats, was little closer. Paul Kelly (2,731 votes) and Ella Adkison (2,360 votes) are still ahead, however Adkison’s advantage against Nathaniel “Nano” Brooks (2,179) was reduced by 28 votes.
in the election to win two school board seats that are not filled, David Noon (4,558 votes) and Britteny Cioni-Haywood (4,267) both increased their lead in the race over Paige Sipniewski (2,372 votes).
The update on Friday included 2,189 votes counted, since that first result was announced early on Wednesday morning. So so far, officials have counted 7,387 votes.
In the last local election in the city of 9,137 voters were registered to vote.
Officials from the election will release new results every few days until they’re officially certified on Oct. 17.
