Colyer sees net gain of 20 votes in Douglas County, final canvass shows
photo by: Ashley Hocking
An official canvass of primary election ballots in Douglas County on Thursday gave Gov. Jeff Colyer a net gain of 20 votes in the Republican gubernatorial primary, a small consolation after he conceded the race two days earlier.
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said after the canvass that 66 provisional ballots were added to Colyer’s column while 46 were added for Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has already claimed victory in the race.
Douglas County was one of seven counties conducting canvasses on Thursday. As of 5 p.m., with results from most of those seven counties reported on the secretary of state’s website, including Wyandotte and Shawnee counties, Kobach led Colyer by 349 votes out of nearly 317,000 ballots counted.
That represents a net gain of four votes in Kobach’s favor since Colyer conceded the race Tuesday night.
Thursday’s canvass did not alter election night results in any of the other local races in Douglas County. Official results from Douglas County in those races include:
House District 42 – Republican (Douglas County only)
Jim Karleskint, 307, 53.77 percent
Lance Neelly, 264, 46.23 percent
House District 44 – Democratic
Dennis “Boog” Highberger, 2,910, 87.65 percent
Benjamin Ferlo, 410, 12.35 percent
House Disrict 45 – Democratic
Mike Amyx: 1,664, 56.25 percent
Aidan Loveland Koster, 649, 21.94 percent
Steven X. Davis, 645, 21.81 percent
House District 45 – Republican
Cynthia Smith, 1,404, 56.61 percent
Ronald Thacker, 1,076, 43.39 percent
County Commission, District 1 – Democratic
Patrick Kelly, 2,050, 52.97 percent
Leslie Soden, 1,298, 33.54 percent
John Magnuson, 522, 13.49 percent
Here are the advance report, provisional report, and write-in report for the 2018 Primary Canvass. pic.twitter.com/xRLgfXmKdO
— Douglas Co Elections (@dgcokselections) August 16, 2018
This is the report we use to balance signatures to ballots and report to the Board. pic.twitter.com/vXEYgToBCK
— Douglas Co Elections (@dgcokselections) August 16, 2018
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