With all votes in, Soldotna’s Peter Micciche has been declared winner of the special election for Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor.
Peter Micciche waved to voters from the intersection of the Sterling Highway and the Kenai Spur in Soldotna Tuesday. (Riley Board/KDLL
Micciche, a former Soldotna mayor and Alaska State Senate President, won more than half of all votes, with 51.6% — meaning no March runoff election is necessary. The certification was announced during the end of a more than five-hour Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting Tuesday, and comes. After in-person ballots were cast last Tuesday, the borough was waiting to receive and count absentee ballots and ballots from the borough’s by-mail precincts.
With those votes tallied, Micciche held a strong lead over his opponents. Linda Farnsworth-Hutchings came in second place, with almost 20% of the vote. Robert Wall, a write-in candidate, came in third, with 12.1%. David Carey brought in 11% and Zachary Hamilton had 4.6%.Micciche will serve through the next regularly scheduled municipal election, in October.
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