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SALT LAKE CITY — Final election results are officially in, with some races decided by a dozen votes or less.
In Brighton — Salt Lake County’s newest incorporated town — Keith Zuspan will sit on the City Council with Jenna Malone, Carolyn Keigley and Jeffery Bossard, having beaten out Phil Lanouette by just four votes. The two had stayed neck and neck as results trickled in, with just a handful of votes separating them since Nov. 5.
And Daniel Knopp will serve as Brighton’s first mayor after earning 21 votes more than Don Despain, Tuesday’s results show. Knopp had gradually widened his lead since election night, when the two were separated by just five votes.
In Orem, Debby Lauret retained her City Council seat with 6,740 votes — just 12 more than incumbent Sam Lentz as they battled for the last of three seats up for vote. Terry Peterson and Jeffrey Lambson won the other two seats.
The final results in the North Ogden City Council race, in which voters were asked to choose three candidates, hadn’t been posted online by Tuesday evening and likely wouldn’t be published until Wednesday, Weber County Elections Director Ryan Cowley said.
As of the most recent vote count update on Nov. 8, Phillip Swanson was in the third-place spot, following Ryan Barker and Charlotte Ekstrom. But Randy Winn, in fourth place, was just 15 votes behind him.
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Sen. Luz Escamilla concedes to Erin Mendenhall in Salt Lake City mayor race
Sen. Luz Escamilla conceded to Erin Mendenhall in the Salt Lake City mayor’s race Wednesday just after 4 p.m.Other races along the Wasatch Front were slightly less nail-biting, but still decided by well under 100 votes.
Christopher McConnehey defeated Marilyn Richards by 54 votes in West Jordan’s District 1 City Council race, with 1,998 votes to Richards’s 1,944 votes.
In the Sandy District 4 race, Monica Zoltanski widened her lead against Brooke D’Sousa to win by 61 votes; on Nov. 7, there had been 25 votes separating the candidates.
And in Sandy’s District 2 — where just 17 votes separated the candidates on election night — Alison Stroud was officially declared the winner, with 2,003 votes to Maren Barker’s 1,919 votes.
Tuesday’s final batch of results put the official vote count for the Salt Lake City mayoral race at 26,762 votes for Erin Mendenhall and 19,393 votes for Luz Escamilla. Escamilla conceded the race to Mendenhall the day after the election.
The final vote count also showed 4,473 votes for Salt Lake City Council Chairman Charlie Luke, who conceded to challenger Dan Dugan last week. The final results showed 4,655 votes for Dugan.
