Tillamook County Clerk Christy Nyseth certified and submitted results from the May 21 primary election to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office on June 13.
The finalized results hewed to earlier releases, with Erin Skaar and Paul Fournier securing election as Tillamook County Commissioners, KaSandra Larson winning the position of Tillamook County Assessor and Cyrus Javadi holding off a primary challenge for his state house seat.
8,612 votes were tabulated and certified, representing a 40.5% turnout of the county’s 21,241 registered voters. Party-affiliated voters were significantly more likely to vote, with 55.5% of registered Democrats and 56.7% of registered Republicans returning ballots, while just 20.5% of nonpartisan voters participated in the election.
Incumbent Tillamook County Commissioner Skaar won reelection to position one against a double challenge from Jeff Spink and Bruce Lovelin, receiving 53.7% of the vote, while Spink garnered 28.1% and Lovelin 17.8%.
Fournier, a longtime Tillamook County Sheriff’s Deputy, beat Darcy Jones in the race for position two on the board of county commissioners, taking 70.4% of the vote to Jones’s 28.7%.
Larson beat out Kari Fleisher in the race to replace Denise Vandecoevering as Tillamook County Assessor, garnering 65.0% of the votes cast.
Javadi had received 76.7% of the votes cast in Tillamook County, compared to 22.9% for his opponent Glenn Gaither. Although the Oregon Secretary of State’s website did not show updated results for the entire 32nd district, Javadi had received over 70% of the votes tabulated across the district on election day.
The Tillamook Fire District’s request that voters approve a bond of 84 cents per thousand dollars of assessed property value was rejected, with 58.0% of votes coming in against the proposal.
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