McKenna will face North Summit Fire District Treasurer Ari Ioannides, a Republican, in the November general election for Summit County Council seat C.
The Summit County clerk’s unofficial results showed McKenna garnered just over 55% of the vote to Cooke’s 45% Tuesday. 2,617 Democratic ballots were cast, about a 38% turnout.
Overall voter turnout was 42%.
South Summit residents also chose two candidates for school board seat 2 to advance to the nonpartisan general election.
Well over half of the 416 votes went to Dan Eckert and Garrett Carpenter, who beat Rex Anderson and James Blazzard Tuesday night.
For U.S. House District 1, which includes Kimball Junction and northern Summit County, Rep. Blake Moore garnered over 58,000 votes, almost triple the number his Republican challenger Paul Miller did.
Entrepreneur Hoang Nguyen beat out tech executive Jeff Howell for Utah House District 23, which includes Summit Park and parts of Salt Lake County.
Although Nguyen garnered just over 57% of the total vote, Howell was slightly more popular in Summit County, winning 113 votes to Nguyen’s 107.
The results will be made official at a special meeting of the Summit County Council July 9. The general election is Nov. 5.
