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.

Write-in votes accounted for more than 24% of the 28,396 votes cast in the four-year school board term race.

A final certification of all votes will be issued on Monday, Nov. 27.

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