Incumbents comfortably led in all but one race for a seat on the Grant County Commission in primary elections that took place in Grant County and its legislative districts Tuesday. The voting tallies will be updated Wednesday as more ballots are counted.

At last count Tuesday night, challenger Rob Jones led incumbent Commissioner Tom Taylor in the race for Grant County Commissioner Position 2, with Jones netting 1,604 votes, or 50 percent, compared with Taylor’s 1,517 votes, or 48 percent. The two will face off again in the November election.

In the three-way race for Grant County Commissioner Position 1, Almira farmer Danny Stone earned 1,710 votes to best second-place Earl Romig’s 1,323 votes and Mark Wanke’s 880 votes.

Incumbent Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, easily led against Democrat Eduardo Castaneda-Diaz and “Classical Democrat” John ‘the man’ Malan for Legislative District 13 state representative Position 1, earning over 73 percent of the vote districtwide.