Primary 2022: Lane County Election results certified, see who won, what's next
The primary election results are officially certified with two of the three local officials running for reelection in contested races headed off challengers, according to official election results.
Lane County posted the official tallies after certifying the election results Friday. The deadline to certify results was Monday.
Several races were close, but none were close enough to trigger an automatic recount, and no one had filed a demand for a recount as of Tuesday morning, according to the Lane County Clerk's Office. Candidates have until June 21 to file for a recount.
The officials results show Joe Berney, who represents Springfield on the Lane County Board of Commissioners, lost his reelection bid by just 98 votes, though there could be some changes due to write-in votes,.
Heather Buch, who represents the eastern portion of the county on the Board of Commissioners, and Jennifer Yeh, who represents Ward 4 on the Eugene City Council, both won their reelection bids.
Local boards will still see a few new faces as people won bids for open seats.
Here's a look at the full election results for Lane County.
Eugene City Council
Four seats on Eugene's city council were up for election this year:
Ward 3: Incumbent Alan Zelenka ran unopposed.
Ward 4: Yeh won reelection, edging out challenger Jennifer Solomon by around 360 votes.
Ward 5: Incumbent Mike Clark ran unopposed.
Ward 6: Incumbent Greg Evans ran unopposed.
Wards 1, 2, 7 and 8 will be on the ballot in 2024 along with the mayor's seat. The incumbents in those positions are:
Mayor Lucy Vinis
Ward 1: Emily Semple
Ward 2: Matt Keating
Ward 7: Claire Syrett
Ward 8: Randy Groves
Lane County Board of Commissioners
There was a four-way race for the District 1 seat Commissioner Jay Bozievich is vacating. Five people had filed for the seat, but one candidate dropped out for personal reasons.
Ryan Ceniga and Dawn Lesley will vie for the seat in November after getting the most votes but failing to get more than 50% of the more than 21,000 votes cast for the seat, which represents the western portion of the county.
Ceniga, a Eugene Water & Electric Board employee who serves on the Junction City School Board, got 42.6% of the vote.
Lesley, an environmental engineer who serves as vice-chair of the Lane County Budget Committee and ran for the seat in 2014, got 41.1% of the vote.
In the race for District 2, which covers Springfield, David Loveall edged out incumbent Berney by 98 votes − less than 1% of the nearly 14,800 ballots cast in that race.
The challenger for the District 5 seat, which covers eastern Lane County, didn't fare as well as Loveall.
Kyle Blain, a city councilor in Coburg, challenged incumbent Buch but lost by 475 votes.
The two remaining districts on the board, which represent north Eugene and south Eugene will be on the ballot in 2024. Currently, Pat Farr represents north Eugene in District 4, and Laurie Trieger represents south Eugene in District 3.
Springfield City Council
Three seats on the Springfield City Council were up for election this year:
Ward 1: Michelle Webber, who sits on the Lane Transit District Board of Directors, ran unopposed for the seat. She'll be new to the council.
Ward 2: Incumbent Steve Moe ran unopposed
Ward 5: Victoria Doyle got 53.3% of around 10,100 votes cast, edging out Mark Molina for the seat that Marilee Woodrow is vacating.
The other three council seats are up for election in 2024. They're currently held by:
Ward 3: Kori Rodley
Ward 4: Leonard Stoehr
Ward 6: Joe Pishioneri
Eugene Water and Electric Board
Two seats on the five-member board are on the ballot this year.
John Brown, the incumbent for Wards 4 and 5, ran unopposed for reelection.
Mindy Schlossberg also ran unopposed for reelection to the at-large seat.
Terms for the remaining three seats expire in 2024. Those are held by:
Wards 1 and 8: Matt McRae
Wards 2 and 3: John Barofsky
Ward 6 and 7: Sonya Carlson
Lane County Assessor
Two internal candidates ran to replace Michael Cowles, who is retiring as the head of the county's Assessment and Taxation Department.
Mary Vuksich-Schafer edged out Faith Bowlsby with 66.8% of the nearly 74,500 votes cast in the race.
State Senate
There were no contested races in the primary for Lane County seats in the Oregon State Senate. Floyd Prozanski, a Democrat from Eugene, ran unopposed for reelection to District 4. There will be two contested races in November:
District 6: Cedric Hayden, a Republican from Lane County, and Ashley Pelton, a Democrat from Cottage Grove, will vie for the seat.
District 7: James Manning Jr., a Democrat from Eugene, is running for reelection and faces a challenger in Raquel Ivie, an auto broker from Eugene who won the Republican nomination.
Read more:Primary results: Most races set for Oregon House general election, one undecided
State House
The primary election set course for several state house races. There will be a contested race for all but one of the six Oregon State House seats on the general election ballot in Lane County:
District 7: John Lively, a Democrat from Springfield, is running to continue representing the city in District 7 (he represented District 12 until redistricting changed the boundaries). He faces a challenger in Alan Stout, a Republican from Springfield who won the party nomination with 82.6% of the vote.
District 8: Paul Holvey, a Democrat from Eugene, is running for reelection to District 8 and faces Michael Moore, a Eugene resident who won the Republican nomination.
District 12: Michelle Emmons, an Oakridge resident who works for Willamette Riverkeeper, won the Democratic nomination and will face Charlie Conrad, who eked out the Republican nomination by less than 100 votes.
District 13: Nancy Nathanson, a Democrat, is running for reelection and faces Timothy Sutherland, a Eugene resident who won the Republican nomination.
District 14: Julie Fahey, a Democrat, is running for reelection and faces Stan Stubblefield, who owns De Casa Fine Food and won the Republican nomination with 85.4% of the vote.
Boomer Wright, a Republican from Douglas County, is running unopposed for reelection to District 9.
Judicial races, ballot measures
This article does not contain results for judicial races or for ballot measures.
Full results for county races are available at apps.lanecounty.org/Elections/Document.ashx?id=3295.
Independents could file
The races above could see more candidates as people file to run independent of a party. No one has done so as of June 13, according to the Secretary of State's database.
More local races on November ballot
There will be more local races on the ballot in the general election including Springfield mayor, three seats on the Springfield Utility Board and mayor and city council seats in other cities in Lane County, such as Florence, Cottage Grove and Oakridge.
State issues
Elsewhere in the state, Clackamas County certified its elections by Monday's deadline after several missteps delayed vote total reporting for weeks. Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has already ordered the county to undertake additional post-election audits to ensure the processes undertaken to rectify a ballot-printing error did not change any election results.
Contact city government watchdog Megan Banta at mbanta@registerguard.com. Follow her on Twitter @MeganBanta_1.
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