Live election results: Washington County Board of Education

Julie E. Greene, The Herald-Mail
Updated ·1 min read

Four of the seven seats for the Washington County Board of Education are up for election this year.

Of the 11 candidates for the nonpartisan school board race, the top eight vote-getters will move onto the General Election.

Incumbents Pieter Bickford, Stan Stouffer, Melissa Williams and April Zentmeyer are running for re-election.

The challengers are Victoria Beachley, Charles A. Burkett, Nancy Lee Evans, Michael P. Keifer, Ethan Loewen, Ashley McCusker and Robin Merchant Spickler.

Below is the latest vote total as of Wednesday morning, including early voting, mail-in ballots that have been counted so far, and 46 of 46 Election Day precincts. The names in bold are the leaders for the top eight spots. However, not all ballots have been counted, including mail-in and provisional ballots.

These are unofficial and incomplete results.

As of Tuesday, 6,509 mail-in ballots containing the school board race had been counted. That's out of a total of 12,496 mail-in ballots sent out that included the school board race, according to a May 13 mail-in ballot report. The last day for canvassing eligible mail-in ballots, postmarked by Election Day, is May 24.

Board of Education (nonpartisan)

Top 8 move on to General Election

  • Victoria Beachley, 5,821

  • Pieter Bickford (i), 9,238

  • Charles A. Burkett, 6,940

  • Nancy Lee Evans, 3,709

  • Michael P. Keifer, 4,510

  • Ethan Loewen, 2,554

  • Ashley McCusker, 5,243

  • Robin Merchant Spickler, 5,014

  • Stan Stouffer (i), 8,315

  • Melissa Williams (i), 7,655

  • April Ann Zentmeyer (i), 5,762

NOTE: i refers to an incumbent candidate.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: Live election results: Washington County Board of Education