Recently retired Lewis County Fire District 6 Chief Ken Cardinale was leading the race for position No. 3 on the district’s board of commissioners against incumbent Gregory Greene and fellow challenger Abraham Meyer on Tuesday night.
With the top two vote-getters advancing to the general election, preliminary primary election results indicate Cardinale and Greene will face off in November, with Cardinale garnering 651 ballots, or 54.11% of the vote, to Greene’s 420 votes, or 34.91% of the vote.
Cardinale retired earlier this year after a combined eight years as fire chief for the City of Chehalis and Lewis County Fire District 6. Greene is a former Thurston County District 6 firefighter who was appointed to the position No. 3 seat in 2021.
Meyer, a Chehalis firefighter, trailed behind his competitors on election night with 122 votes, or 10.14% of the vote.
A total of 10 ballots had gone to a write-in candidate as of election night.
In the first round of ballots counted, just 21.82% of Lewis County’s 35,140 registered voters had turned out. Over 7,600 ballots had been counted throughout the county, and the next set of results was slated to come in at 4 p.m. on Aug. 2.
The election will be certified on Aug. 15 at the Lewis County Courthouse.
For questions about the election, visit the Lewis County Auditor’s Office at 351 NW North St., Chehalis or call 360-740-1164.
Full preliminary results from the Lewis County primary election can be found here: https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20230801/lewis/.
