Melinda Gneiting holds her election sign at the Douglas County Community & Senior Center on Tuesday evening, just hours before the polls closed.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
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
