Yuma City Primary Election Results 2017

The preliminary and unofficial results are in for the city of Yuma’s primary elections that were held on Tuesday, Aug. 29th.

Yuma residents had the chance to cast their vote to elect or choose candidates for the following positions: City Mayor, Presiding Judge, and three City Council member seats.

Polls closed at 7 p.m on Tuesday. The current count reflects 6,850 ballots cast including early ballots, poll results from all three voting center,s provisional ballots, and write-in ballots.

The preliminary results for the early ballots that were processed and counted are the following:

Mayor, Votes Cast, Percentage of Ballots Cast

Nicholls, Douglas 5,725 84%

City Council, Votes Cast, Percentage of Ballots Cast

Counts, Gregory 2,506 37%
Knight, Gary 3,121 46%
McClendon, Leslie 2,725 40%

Ostrowski, Shelley 1,727 25%

Rojas-McNair, Kristina 2,055 30%

Rosevear, Ken 2,737 40%

Watts, Karen 2,729 40%

McIntire, Valerie (write-in) 0%

Presiding Municipal Court Judge, Votes Cast, Percentage of Ballots Cast

Coil, James 5,675 83%

Among the candidates for City Council, Knight, Rosevear, Watts, McClendon, Counts, and McNair will move to the general election in November.

The deadline to register to vote for the November election is Oct. 9th. Early voting will start as soon as Oct. 11th.