Randleas

JOHN DAY — The John Day City Council will have two new faces in the new year.

Sitting City Councilor Katrina Randleas cruised easily to re-election, but fellow council members Shannon Adair and Chris Labhart are on their way after being outpolled by challengers Ron Phillips and Sherrie Rininger.

Three of the council’s six seats were up for grabs in the election, with the positions going to the top three vote-getters.

Here are the results of the election, based on unofficial returns as of Monday, Nov. 14:

Katrina Randleas: 486

Ron Phillips: 446

Sherrie Rininger: 393

Shannon Adair: 376

Richie Colbeth: 252

Sitting Councilor Chris Labhart missed the deadline to get his name on the ballot but ran as a write-in candidate. Three write-in candidates garnered votes in the balloting, with the top one getting 74 votes, but they were not identified by name by the Grant County Elections Office.

Under a new state law, mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day can still be counted up to a week later, so the final results could still change.

Where that could still make a difference is in the 17-vote margin between Adair and Rininger. If Adair receives enough late mail-in votes to pull ahead by the final count, she will retain her seat on the council. As of Monday, however, she had only narrowed the gap by a single vote.