After tabulating the final votes from north central Idaho, Michelle Evans was declared the winner in the race to become the next Idaho 2nd District Judge.
Evans received a total of 16,754 votes, or 50.2% of the vote and John Bradbury had 16,612 votes, or 49.7% in Tuesday’s election. The results were finalized Wednesday morning when precincts in Nez Perce, Latah, Clearwater, Lewis and Idaho counties completed their tallies.
Evans will begin a four-year term in January when current 2nd District Judge Jay Gaskill retires.
In other election news: Republican Dan Foreman edged incumbent Democrat David Nelson in the race for Idaho’s 6th District Senate seat.
Foreman received 10,147 votes, to Nelson’s 9,756 votes.
