During its regular meeting Tuesday, the Ogden City Council voted 5-0 to certify the results of the election. In both of the City Council races that were contested in the primary, challengers led the way over multiterm incumbents.

Alicia Washington finished first in the at-large Seat A race with 2,795 votes (38.37%), while incumbent council member Marcia White had 2,771 votes (38.04%). Washington and White both advance to the general election in November. Trailing them were John H. Thompson with 1,167 votes (16.02%) and Sheri Lyn Morreale with 551 votes (7.56%).

In the at-large Seat B race, Kevin Lundell finished in first with 3,578 votes (48.93%). Incumbent council member Bart Blair finished with 2,702 votes (36.95%), while Pieder Beeli finished in third place with 1,032 votes (14.11%). Lundell and Blair both 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.

Meanwhile, the District 3 seat will be contested between incumbent council member Ken Richey and Heath Satow.

Ogden City Recorder Tracy Hansen presented the final numbers to the City Council for certification, saying she was a bit discouraged by the low 22% turnout in Ogden.

“It was pretty rough at the beginning. We had a 6% average for the first two weeks that ballots were out,” she said. “I was happy to see more returned, but I’m discouraged by the (fact that) 78% of people did not vote.”

According to the presentation, of the 33,939 ballots sent to voters in the city, only 7,468 were cast, while 26,471 were not cast and 678 were undeliverable.

Hansen said nine provisional ballots were cast with five being counted. The four that were rejected were due to insufficient ID (2), incomplete form (1) and an immigration issue (1).

Meanwhile, a total of 103 ballots were returned but not counted due to  a variety of reasons including being received past the deadline (86), signatures not matching voter records (7), returned without a signature (8), empty envelope (1) or being signed by someone other than the voter (1).

Choberka took time to acknowledge those who stepped up and ran for office.

“Now that I’ve been through that a couple of times, I understand how trying that can be,” she said.

Hansen also thanked the Ogden City Police Department.