Incumbents Mark Kingston and Bob Snyder and newcomer Patrick Kline were unopposed Tuesday in their bids for four-year Forest County commissioner seats.
Kingston and Kline are Republicans, and Snyder is a Democrat. They were the only candidates on the ballot as no Democrats other than Snyder ran in the spring primary.
Kline is a Green Township supervisor.
Longtime commissioner Basil Huffman, a Republican, retired at the end of 2022, and Norm Wimer, a former county commissioner and current county coroner, was appointed to fill the remaining year of Huffman’s term.
Wimer did not seek election as a commissioner.
Other countywide races
Elsewhere in Forest County, incumbents for several row offices were unopposed in their bid for reelection.
District attorney Alyce Busch, a Democrat, Wimer, the incumbent Republican coroner, and treasurer Stacey Barnes, a Republican, were all re-elected Tuesday.
Republican Miriah TKach, was also elected to the county’s prothonotary, register, recorder and clerk of courts post.
TKach was appointed to the positions at the end of April when Dawn Millin, the former prothonotary, register, recorder and clerk of courts, retired. TKach had previously been the deputy in those positions.
Tionesta borough, townships
In Tionesta Borough, incumbent Republicans Jamie Say, Robert Holzer and Christi Black won new terms on borough council.
No Democrats were on the ballot for borough council.
Meanwhile, one six-year supervisor slot was on the ballot in each township in the county.
The ballot in Jenks Township featured a contested race for supervisor, the only township supervisor race with a Democratic candidate on the ballot.
In Jenks Township, former supervisor Kevin Carter beat current longtime supervisor Greg Geyer 208-168.
Geyer, a Republican, received enough write-in votes in the primary to get the Democratic nomination.
Republicans unopposed for township supervisor were Michael Traugott (Barnett Township), Jeff Hartzell (Green Township), Shawn Passauer (Harmony Township), Jay Wagner (Hickory Township), Richard Shaffer (Howe Township), Bill Hall Jr. (Kingsley Township) and Todd Allio (Tionesta Township).
The voter turnout in Forest County was 47.1% with a total of 1,478 ballots cast.
Those totals include mail-in and absentee ballots.