Election-night results show Kate Dean winning a seat to become a Jefferson County commissioner, and Jeff Randall unseating incumbent Barney Burke for a public utility district commission race.

Election night returns (unofficial but complete) show Dean with 10,129 votes (66 percent) and Tim Thomas with 4,946 votes (32 percent). Dean's election to succeed the retiring Phil Johnson as District 1 commissioner, seats two women (Dean joins Kathleen Kler, District 3) on the three-member board for the first time in the county's history.

"I'm extremely grateful," said Dean moments after learning of her overwhelming victory. Dean's son, Finn, smiled and said Dean had "beaten the record by 8 points," but Dean told him to be quiet. He was apparently referring to the wide victory margin.

For PUD commissioner, Randall on election night had 8,418 votes (61 percent) to Burke's 5,234 votes (38 percent).

"I'm very pleased," said Randall, who also was with his family to hear the news. "The race felt a lot closer than that." Randall said raising funds did make a difference.

"I think we ran a lean campaign," Randall said, acknowledging that trying to unseat an incumbent would be hard without campaign spending.

Randall raised $8,636, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission as of Oct. 12. Incumbent Barney Burke declined to accept any campaign contributions and financed his campaign with his own money.

"I'm glad I ran my campaign the way I run my life with integrity at the top. I will say when you go door to door it seems much more positive than that," Burke said in a telephone interview, adding that it looked like he'd be spending more time in the garden.

In Brinnon, voters are rejecting the Jefferson County Park and Recreation District 2's first-ever request for a property tax levy to support the entity voters approved in 2012. The no vote total of 362 (54 percent) is more than the yes votes of 304 (46 percent). The proposed six-year property tax levy of 5 cents per $1,000 of assessed value required voter approval of 60 percent. The levy is expected to raise $15,000 to support the district's administrative functions.

For president, it's no surprise in heavily-Democratic Jefferson County that Hillary Clinton with 10,805 votes is outdrawing Donald Trump at 5,019 votes. On the national level, however, as of Leader press time at 8:55 p.m., the presidential winner was undeclared.

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The Jefferson County Auditor's Office counted all ballots available as of Tuesday evening: 17,594 of the 18,951 that had been returned. The auditor's office intends to count ballots on both Wednesday and Thursday.

Election results are not final until certified on Nov. 29.

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