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Yuhasz, Donnan win runoffs

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Staff

Hillsborough lawyer and land surveyer Steve Yuhasz won a runoff for the Democratic primary for the new District 2 seat on the Orange County Board of Commissioners.

Yuhasz beat Leo Allison, gathering 1,486 votes, or 55.7 percent, of the total to Allison’s 1,183 votes, or 44.3 percent. Yuhasz had also won the previous round in a four-way contest, but failed to reach a high enough threshold to win the nomination outright. Allison called for the runoff.

The win on Tuesday means that Yuhasz has a clear path to the seat since he faces no Republican challenger
In the Democratic primary runoff for labor commissioner, Mary Fant Donnan won the Democratic nomination for North Carolina labor commissioner, defeating John C. Brooks in Tuesday’s runoff. Donnan won 73.09 percent of the votes to Brooks’ 26.91 percent.

Donnan finished first in the May primary over three other candidates but failed to receive enough votes to avoid a runoff with Brooks, the second-place finisher. She will now face Republican incumbent Cherie Berry, for whom Donnan once worked at the Dept. of Labor. Donnan currently is employed as a program officer for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem.

Only 74,758, or 1.89 percent, of nearly four million registered voters in North Carolina turned out for the runoff, a record low. In Orange County, 4,069 of 77,272 voters, or 5.27 percent, went to the polls.

—Staff Reports

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