Kirby and Dinning re-elected County Commissioners

In the race for Boundary County Commissioner seats, Walt Kirby and Dan Dinning were re-elected.

Dinning said he is pleased with the outcome.

"It is an honor, yet also humbling, to be re-elected for another term," Dinning said.

"This election was not about me. It was about the future of this community.

“There is still a lot of hard work ahead in these economic and uncertain times. I have promised to fulfill, to the best of my ability, what is in the best interest of the residents of Boundary County. This responsibility is not taken lightly. I want to thank all that participated in the process, as this appears to be a significant turnout in an off year election."

Dinning, a life-long Boundary County resident, said his focus is on representing the community’s residents.

Walt Kirby was not available for comment.

For the 2nd District, Kirby garnered 1, 698 votes, Orrin Everhart 1,507 and John White 320. In the 3rd District, Dan Dinning received 2,099 votes and Mike Richardson received 1,356 votes.

Kirby ran on a platform of continuing to make improvements to the county — citing numerous projects accomplished from acquiring grants for Boundary County Airport and the Restorium, to a variety of road projects.

David Ryals was re-elected assessor 2,676 votes to 654 against Jeff Stankiewicz.

"The main thing is the vote of confidence from the public," said Ryals about being re-elected. "Thrilled to death. Totally grateful."

Unopposed and re-elected were: Glenda Poston in her bid Clerk of the District Court, Jennifer Fessler as reasurer and Mick Mellett, county coroner.

Polls were busy with 3,620 people voting in Boundary County on Tuesday.

"Numbers were quite high compared to other non-presidental elections," said Clerk Glenda Poston, who mentioned the polls were definitely busy all day.

"A good turnout for a non-presidental election," said deputy clerk Tracie Issac. "Larger than normal."

Unofficial results indicate 62 percent of registered voters (as of Nov. 1) voted.

Boundary County results favored Republican candidates which paralleled the rest of Idaho.