Election Night - Teton County 2018 Primary Election Results

Teton County voters showed up in droves for the 2018 primary election. Out of 13,720 registered voters, 6,000 made their voices heard on Tuesday — a 43 percent voter turnout.

Arne Olaus Jorgensen, incumbent Donald Frank, Jonathan Schechter and Jessica Sell Chambers made it through to the general election bid for Town Council, a nonpartisan race. Judd Grossman and Zachary Padilla fell off the ticket.

Three candidates moved forward to the general election in the Teton County Commissioners race on the Democratic side: Seadar Rose Davis, Mark Newcomb and Luther Propst. Richard Aurelio did not make it through. All County Commissioner Republican candidates moved through to the general election.

House District 22 provided a close race between incumbent Marti Halverson and Bill Winney. In Teton County, Winney inched out by 22 votes— 315 to Halverson’s 293—but the district covers multiple counties.

While some state races showed an upset in Teton County—like Dodson over Barrasso—the rest of the state voted otherwise.

As of 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Barrasso was declared the winner of the U.S. Senate GOP primary race.

Mark Gordon swept Teton County in his bid for governor in the GOP primary, upsetting the local candidate Foster Friess. Gordon collected twice the amount of votes as Friess in Teton County, and as of press time Gordon was declared the GOP primary winner. With over 90 percent of precincts reporting, Friess came in second behind Gordon. Democratic candidate Mary Throne won the majority of primary votes in her party.

Leland Christensen’s home county showed strong support for his State Treasurer bid, giving him 77 percent of the vote. Liz Cheney also held the majority of the votes in Teton County for U.S. Representative, with 49 percent.

These results reflect the unofficial summary report from Teton County. Overall winners of statewide and district-wide races are not reflected.

Teton County Commissioner – Dem Primary
Richard Aurelio Dem	538
Seadar Rose Davis Dem	991
Mark Newcomb Dem	1276
Luther Propst Dem	1108

Teton County Commissioner – GOP Primary
Mark Barron GOP	2520
Mary M. Martin GOP	1927
Andrew P. Byron GOP	1909

Teton County Sheriff
Matt Carr Dem	1523
Michelle A. Weber GOP	2291
Slade Ross Ind	N/A

Town Council
Jessica Sell Chambers	647
Donald Frank	829
Judd Grossman	623
Arne Olaus Jorgensen	1007
Zachary Padilla	283
Jonathan Schechter	775

U.S. Senate – GOP Primary
John Barrasso GOP	1707
Rocky De La Fuente GOP	82
Dave Dodson GOP	1916
Charlie Hardy GOP	96
John Holtz GOP	78
Anthony Van Risseghem GOP	21