Gants moves on, but opponent undetermined
Hansen, Sweet advance in race for Treasurer
Last updated 8/4/2022 at 2:57pm
DAVENPORT—Gabe Gants is comfortably one of the final two candidates for Lincoln County Sheriff, but his opponent in the November general election is still to be determined. Brian Telford held a slim 671-605 lead over Andy Manke after the initial results of the primary election came out late Tuesday, Aug. 2.
The race between Telford and Manke is still a tossup, with 986 ballots remaining to be counted as of press time. The next tally will occur Thursday, Aug. 4 at 4 p.m.
Gants blitzed the other four candidates with 1,549 total votes, or 50%.
“I feel truly blessed,” Gants said after the results dropped. “I’m truly humbled with the amount of support.”
Manke said he was surprised at the numbers Telford and Gants received and would await the remaining votes expected to be counted.
“I came out with my plan at the two forums, and it wasn’t a popular campaign platform,” Manke said. “The citizens of Lincoln County appear to not be behind my plan, so it is what it is…we’ll wait and see when all the votes are counted.”
Telford didn’t immediately return calls for comment Tuesday night.
Jeff Barden received 172 votes, while Adam Johnson had 81 votes. Neither will advance to the general election.
“The pulse I got was folks out there wanted a lot of (change), but it seems like they’ve decided to go with staying relatively the same,” Barden said. “I wish those going forward luck and hope the citizens of Lincoln County get what they deserve, which is integrity and no empty words coming from that office.”
Johnson didn’t respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Emily Lybbert Hansen steadily advanced to the general election with 1,971 or 66.95% of votes in the race for Lincoln County Treasurer.
“Feeling very grateful,” Hansen said. “And humbled by the voters' trust.”
Brad Sweet is the second candidate for treasurer to advance to the general election.
Sweet had 682 votes or 23.17% of votes.
“Little disappointed by the numbers,” Sweet said. “But that gives me more of a drive to get out there and work harder.”
Pete Brickner was eliminated with 270 or 9.17% of votes.
“Win, lose or draw,” Brickner said. “I had to put in my two cents. The two candidates moving forward, I wish them luck.”
In the race for Lincoln County Commissioners Rob Coffman and Jason Debord both advanced to the general election.
Only District 3 voted in the primary.
Coffman’s results were 733 or 57.58%.
“I feel great,” Coffman said. “We had the best turn out in the state for voters.”
Debord was not far behind Coffman with 528 or 41.48%.
“It went good,” Debord said. “Great responses from the voters.”
Unopposed candidates running for county offices that advanced to the general election included J Scott Liebing (Assessor) with 2,555 votes, Chandra Schumacher (Auditor) with 2,529 votes, Traci Gants (Clerk) with 2,541 votes and Adam Walser (Prosecutor) with 2,461 votes.
Incumbent Cathy McMorris Rodgers easily advanced to the general election in the race for Congressional District No. 5 Representative, receiving 55,557 votes statewide for 50.81%. She’ll face Democrat Natasha Hill in the general election, who received 33,098 votes for 30.27%. Democrat Ann Marie Danimus and Republican Sean Clynch were eliminated.
Rodgers received 2,150 votes in Lincoln County. Hill had 422 votes, Clynch had 375 votes and Danimus had 186 votes.
Democrat Steve Hobbs comfortably moved on to the general election in the race for Secretary of State with 415,619 votes for 31.2%. His opponent is to be determined, with nonpartisan Julie Anderson receiving 129,616 votes, Republican Bob Hagglund receiving 124,717 votes and Republican Keith Wagoner receiving 122,653 votes after the initial count Tuesday.
Lincoln County voters preferred Hagglund, who received 850 votes while Wagoner copped 711 votes in the eight-person race.
County voters favored Republican Tiffany Smiley in the race for U.S. Senator, receiving 1,902 votes to Democrat Patty Murray’s 727 votes. Murray held the edge statewide 54% to Smiley’s 32% as the two advanced to the general election in an 18-person race.
Unopposed candidates Mary Dye and Joe Schmick, running for the two Legislative District State Representative positions, received 2,370 votes and 2,389 votes respectively.
Lincoln County had a 39.5% voter turnout as of Tuesday night, fourth-best in the state behind Garfield, Columbia and Jefferson Counties.
UPDATE: With an estimated 425 ballots left to count, Brian Telford's lead over Andy Manke for the second general election spot in the race for Lincoln County Sheriff had slightly grown as of Thursday, Aug. 4. Telford has 904 votes to Manke's 760 votes. Gabe Gants remains far ahead with 2,053 votes.
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