The first returns from Black Diamond shows a sweep of candidates running on the platform of controlling the growth and working for new solutions.
Dave Gordon is beating incumbent Mayor Rebecca Olness with nearly 71 percent of the vote.
The two YarrowBay master planned developments that would add 6,000 homes to the community of about 5,000 people have been contentious issues in the city and has galvanized a political movement that appears to have placed Gordon in the mayor’s seat along with Erika Morgan Janie Edelman and Carol Benson on the City Council.
Write-in 56 0.39%
City of Black Diamond Mayor
(Precincts ( 6/ 6 ) 100.00
Dave Gordon 598 70.69%
Rebecca Olness 246 29.08%
Write-in 2 0.24%
City of Black Diamond Council Position No. 2
(Precincts ( 6/ 6 ) 100.00
Erika Morgan 552 66.99%
Bill Roth 269 32.65%
Write-in 3 0.36%
City of Black Diamond Council Position No. 3
(Precincts ( 6/ 6 ) 100.00
Patrick Nelson 191 23.52%
Janie Edelman 618 76.11%
Write-in 3 0.37%
City of Black Diamond Council Position No. 4
(Precincts ( 6/ 6 ) 100.00
Shawn Oglesbee 244 29.58%
Carol Benson 580 70.30%
Write-in 1 0.12%
