Incumbents hold leads for county commissioner seats

OKANOGAN – Incumbent Okanogan County Commissioners Chris Branch and Andy Hover continue to maintain comfortable leads over their opponents in the fourth count of general election voter results by the auditors office as of last Friday, Nov. 13.

Branch leads opponent Shauna Beeman by 2,599 votes with 56.56 percent for District 1, while Hover’s lead is 3,901 votes or 59.62 percent over challenger Katie Haven for District 2.

Incumbent Keith Goehner trails Winthrop’s Adrianne Moore in Okanogan County by 267 votes for 12^th District State Legislative Representative District 1, but Goehner has a comfortable 60.48 percent lead in Douglas ad Chelan counties.