Better Board candidates hold commanding lead in preliminary results

Candidates backed by the We Deserve a Better Board committee were in the lead in election results released on Tuesday night.

District 3 candidate Erinn Miller was 5,702 votes ahead of School Board Trustee Doug Englekirk, while District 5 candidate Melinda Gneiting was 4,350 votes ahead of Antoinette Casselberry.

While those totals will change, neither race appears close enough for them to switch places.

County Commissioner Danny Tarkanian easily defeated opponents Jason Gibson and Brian Dempsey. Though Gibson was disqualified from the ballot, he still received 6,310 votes, while nonpartisan Dempsey had 4,316. Even if Gibson had been successfully removed from the ballot, combined the two candidates only received 54 percent of Tarkanian’s 19,364 total.

With Douglas County’s significant Republican majority, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Donald Trump would win the county by a 2-1 margin in preliminary results. Senate candidate Sam Brown had nearly 10,000 votes over Sen. Jacky Rosen. With thousands of ballots across the state left to count, that race is too close to call.

Rep. Mark Amodei appears to be on the path to victory over nonpartisan Greg Kidd by a 2-1 margin. Douglas also came in overwhelmingly in favor of Assembly 39 incumbent Ken Gray over Democrat Erich Obermayr.

Down ballot Teresa Duffy, Allen Biaggi and Sharon Des Jardins were the top three for the East Fork Swimming Pool District.

Gardnerville Ranchos resident Dave Nelson and incumbent James Degraffenried are leading in the race for the improvement district board.

In Indian Hills, Russ Siegman and Kathryn Ross were in the lead for that district. Topaz Ranch Estates residents Sharon Becker and Jeffrey Burgess will serve on that district board if preliminary results stand.

Mimi Moss and Steve Thaler were the leaders for the Minden Town Board.

In the justice of the peace races, Laurie Trotter had a big lead over challenger Jeff Schemenauer, while Tahoe Township Justice of the Peace Mike Johnson was ahead of Richard Gardner.

Douglas County Election Results

President           10 p.m.      11 p.m.              

Donald Trump  18,015      20,808

Kamala Harris   8,737        9,854

U.S. Senate

Sam Brown       17,289      19,876

Jacky Rosen       8,897        9,993

U.S. Representative

Mark Amodei    17,293      19,857

Greg Kidd          7,800        8,716

Assembly District 39

Ken Gray   18,445      21,236

Erich Obermayr         7,570        8,512

Douglas County Commissioner

Danny Tarkanian       16,894      19,364

Jason Gibson              5,612        6,310

Brian Dempsey          3,692        4,316

State Board of Education

Angela Orr         11,070      12,453

Paul Davis         9,346        11,021

Douglas School Board District 3

Erinn Miller       14,170      16,060

Doug Englekirk 8,977        10,358

Douglas School Board District 5

Melinda Gneiting       13,576      15,352

Antoinette Casselberry      9,549        11,002

East Fork Swimming Pool District

Teresa Duffy      12,992      14,607

Allen Biaggi       10,621      11,847

Sharon Des Jardins    9,227        10,252

Barbara Kuehner       5,830        6,611

Alan Ferguson   4,417        5237

Gardnerville Ranchos

David Nelson     2,263        2,580

James Degraffenreid  1,949        2,210

Haley Mosegard         1,313        1,493

Deni Caster       1,150        1,315

Indian Hills General Improvement District

Russ Siegman    976  1,140

Kathryn Ross    829  1,018

Nancy Jones      594  737

Topaz Ranch Estates

Sharon Becker  325  412

Jeffrey Burgess 282  366

Wynona Gonzalez      237  303

Alton Randall    193  265

Minden

Mimi Moss         1,270        1,380       

Steven Thaler    982  1,055

Robbe Lehmann        748  854

East Fork Justice of the Peace

Laurie Trotter   12,930      14,293     

Jeff Schemenauer      7,879        9,226

Tahoe Township Justice of the Peace

Michael Johnson        1,362        1,669

Richard Gardner        880  1,108

Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection

John Breaux      1,325        1,575

Benjamin Ward 1,203        1,512

Dan Kruger       1,095        1372

Robert Desipio Jr.      725  940

Kingsbury General Improvement District

Greg Felton        625

Ed Johns   523

Bryce Cranch    445

Sara Nelson       597

Round Hill

Darin Smith       208

Gregg Rossi       198

Janet Murphy    110

Question 1

Yes    7,046

No    21,612

Question 2

Yes    14,535

No    13,846

Question 3

Yes    9,198

No    20,876

Question 4

Yes    16,561

No    12,751

Question 5

Yes    17,969

No    11,314

Question 6

Yes    14,459

No    15,497

Question 7

Yes    23,744

No    6,303