Election officials in the Mason County Auditor’s Office counted 916 ballots on Thursday. No significant changes in the latest results from Tuesday’s General Election.
In the race for the currently vacant Mason County Commissioner District 3 seat, Democrat Miguel Gutierrez remains ahead of Republican George Blush. Gutierrez now has 50.93% (9,466 votes). Blush has 42.67% (7,930 votes). And there are now 1,198 write-ins or 6.4%. The bulk of the write-ins are assumed to be for Jackie Jewett.
In the race for Mason County Auditor, Democrat Tamra “Tam” Ingwaldson still leads incumbent Republican Steve Duenkel. Ingwaldson now has 53.49% of the vote (10,004 votes) while Duenkel now has 46.36% (8,670 votes) with 29 write-ins (0.16%).
In the race for Mason County Clerk, Tammy Clark maintains her lead on incumbent Charles Rhodes, 56.66% to 40.98%. Clark now has 8,960 votes to Rhodes’ 6,480 with 373 write-ins which account for 2.36% of the vote.
In the Mason County Treasurer race, Brittany Pearson leads Randy Lewis 55.71% to 44.22%. Pearson now has 10,406 votes to Lewis’ 8,261 votes with 13 write-ins (0.07%).
For Mason PUD 3 Commissioner District 2, the seat currently held by Tom Farmer, Randy Neatherlin continues to lead Mick Sprouffske 50.48% (7,916 votes) to 48.6% (7,621 votes) with 144 write-ins (0.92%).
The City of Shelton’s Sales and Use Tax for Transportation Improvements, aka the Transportation Benefits District, is passing now by 16 votes with 50.49% approval. That’s 825 voting “Yes” to keep the TBD and 809 voting “No” or against.
The Southside School District’s Replacement Educational Programs and Operations Levy continues to pass now with 58.95% approval. That’s 372 voting “Yes” and 259 voting “No”.
The Pioneer School District’s Replacement Educational Programs and Operations Levy is still passing with 57.22% approval. That’s 2,119 voting “Yes” and 1,584 voting “No”.
Timberland Regional Library District’s Regular Property Tax Levy Lid Lift for Library Services, Operations and Maintenance is still passing now with 55.75% approval across the five counties: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston. That’s 93,385 voting “Yes” and 75,709 voting “No”.
In the 35th Legislative District, Democrat Carolina Majia continues leading incumbent Republican Drew MacEwen for State Senator. There are 800 votes separating the candidates with 28,989 (50.65%) voting for Majia and 28,189 (49.25%)voting for MacEwen with 54 write-ins (0.09%).
For 35th Legislative District State Representative Position 1, incumbent Republican Dan Griffey’s lead on Democrat Jim Pierson continues to increase. The difference now is 1,569 votes. That’s 29,311 (51.32%) voting for Griffey and 27,742 (48.57%) voting for Pierson with 62 write-ins (0.11%).
There are now 1,658 votes separating incumbent Republican Travis Couture from Democrat Maria Littlesun for 35th Legislative District State Representative Position 2. Couture now has 29,326 votes (51.4%) to Littlesun’s 27,668 (48.49%) with 60 write-ins (0.11%).
In the race for 6th Congressional District U.S. Representative, incumbent Democrat Emily Randall continues to lead Republican challenger Teresa Fox, still 64.43% to 35.4%.
State Measures:
Initiative 645 – repealing the millionaires tax:
57.56% voting “No”
Initiative 001 – repealing amendments to certain rights of parents:
52.08% voting “No”
Initiative 638 – prohibiting biological males from girls’ sports:
56.8% voting “Yes”
Supreme Court:
Supreme Court – Justice Position #01:
Colleen Melody leads Scott Edwards 59.46% to 40.3%
Supreme Court – Justice Position #03:
Jaime Michelle Hawk leads David Stevens 57.27% to 42.43%
Supreme Court – Justice Position #04:
Sean O’Donnell leads Ian Birk 51.1% to 48.54%
Supreme Court – Justice Position #05:
Theo Angelis leads Dave Larson 55.08% to 44.63%
Supreme Court – Justice Position #07:
Debra Stephens leads Todd Bloom 63.09% to 36.63%
Election officials in the Mason County Auditor’s Office counted 19,139 ballots from Tuesday night’s election. There are an estimated 11,500 ballots left to be counted in the County, nearly 513,000 in the State. Additional results are expected around 6 PM Friday, November 6, 2026.
Addition results are expected to be release at 6 PM Wednesday, November 4th.