(KAIR)--(KAIR)--Atchison County's results have been certified for November 3rd’s general election; and now, a first all-female County Commission is expected to take office following certification of those results.
The official election results show Republicans Katherine Kohler and Randell Vanderweide winning their respective races for the First and Second District County Commission seats.
Their victories mean the two will join incumbent Third District Commissioner Casey Quinn, giving Atchison County what available county records indicate will be its first all-female commission.
The last time women held a majority of the three commission seats was in 1995.
In the First District race, Kohler received 793 votes to 564 for Democrat Charles Perdue, a margin of 229 votes.
In the Second District, Vanderweide defeated Democrat John Settich by 614 votes, receiving 1,298 votes to Settich's 684.
The final figures represent slight increases over the previously reported unofficial totals, which included ballots from all 19 county precincts and additional mail-in ballots.
The official results follow a delay in the county's election canvass, originally scheduled for Monday, November 9, before being postponed pending authorization from the Kansas Secretary of State's Office. Instead, it was held Thursday morning, November 12 at 8:00.
The week's highly disruptive global Microsoft outage caused a delay in the results being made public following completion of the canvass. Atchison County Clerk, Susan Carrigan, told MSC News in a Friday morning email that "official results...will get posted online as soon as we can." As of 10:30 Friday morning, the results remained offline. Once posted, they will be viewed here.








