Lundell, White leading in at-large Ogden City Council primary races
Rob Nielsen, Standard-Examiner
The Ogden Municipal Building, shown Thursday, June 29, 2023.OGDEN — In the initial tally of votes, incumbents in the Ogden City Council’s races seem poised to move on to the November election, though a newcomer has a substantial lead in one of those races.
In the at-large Seat A race, incumbent Council member Marcia White held the lead with 2,464 votes (39.77%) with Alicia Washington in second with 2,266 votes (36.58%). In third place was John H. Thompson with 1,011 votes (16.32%) and in fourth was Sheri Lyn Morreale with 454 votes (7.33%).
In the at-large Seat B race, newcomer Kevin Lundell came into Wednesday with the lead, tallying 2,954 votes (47.56%). Incumbent Council member Bart Blair had 2,383 votes (38.37%), putting him in second place, while Pieder Beeli trailed in third place with 874 votes (14.07%).
The top two vote-getters in each race will move on to the November general election.
Two other Ogden City Council seats are being contested but did not have more than two candidates; thus, they were not included in the primary election.
The District 1 seat is being contested between Flor Lopez and Jase Reyneveld. Incumbent council member Angela Choberka opted not to run for reelection in 2025.
Meanwhile, the District 2 seat will be contested between incumbent council member Ken Richey and Heath Satow.
According to Weber County Clerk/Auditor Ricky Hatch, there were still many ballots being counted on Wednesday.
“The unofficial results released last night include all ballots returned by mail and secure drop box before 3 PM Tuesday,” he told the Standard-Examiner in an email Wednesday. “We have approximately 3,800 ballots that were returned after that time, plus a handful of provisional voters and voters whose signatures didn’t match. We will scan and report all of the remaining ballots this afternoon. The results that we release this afternoon should represent 99.9% of all votes cast. The remainder of yet-to-be-counted ballots will include provisional ballots and voters whose signatures didn’t match.”
He said Ogden’s turnout has been on the lower end of the spectrum in Weber County.
“It looks like turnout will reach 26%, which is a bit below our estimate of 34%. Ogden Valley City’s turnout will exceed 50% and Marriott-Slaterville will come close to 50%,” he said. “The two cities with the lowest turnout are Roy and Ogden, both around 20%.”
Hatch said that the next round of results would be published later Wednesday evening.
For more Weber County election results, visit https://tinyurl.com/ysetra97.
