Write-in candidate secures 3rd Latrobe City Council seat
A write-in candidate has secured one of three open seats on Latrobe’s City Council, according to unofficial election results.
Dawn Vavick received 179 total write-in votes — two of which were from absentee or mail-in ballots.
Incumbent council members William Yuhaniak and Ralph Jenko won the other two seats, with 1,028 and 1,012 votes, respectively.
That’s a gap of over 800 votes between the two incumbents listed on the ballot and the write-in winner.
Jenko also serves as deputy mayor.
All three individuals won four-year terms.
Two write-in candidates were also victorious in Greater Latrobe’s school board race.
A final certification of all votes will be issued on Monday, Nov. 27.
Megan Swift is a TribLive reporter covering trending news in Western Pennsylvania. A Murrysville native, she joined the Trib full time in 2023 after serving as editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian at Penn State. She previously worked as a Jim Borden Scholarship intern at the Trib for three summers. She can be reached at mswift@triblive.com.
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