Polls closed at 8 p.m. in Cascade County for several municipal elections.

As of about 1:30 a.m., 15,173 ballots had been processed.

Preliminary results are below. Results are not finalized until the county has canvased and certified results, which is typically about two weeks after the election.

Merchant said her staff started processing ballots fairly early in the day. She said the office was busy all day but they worked as quickly as possible to process ballots.

Merchant told The Electric that there was a printer problem that delayed printing the results by an hour and a half.

Great Falls

Mayor

Joe McKenney: 2,760

Cory Reeves: 5,739

Casey Schreiner: 4,796

Abby Brown: 905

Commission

Eric Hinebauch: 5,912

Rick Tryon: 6,664

Micaela Stroop: 3,112

Shannon Wilson: 5,985

Kendall Cox: 2,262

Municipal Court

Department A

Steve Bolstad: 11,849

Department B

Mark Dunn: 8,545

Cayle Halberg: 3,846

Public Safety Levy

Yes: 5,620

No: 9,095

Public Safety Bond

Yes: 6,726

No: 7,925

Belt

Ward 1

Write-in: 44

Ward 2

Duane Miller: 8

Becky Mital Gorton: 16

Robert Williams: 6

Ward 3

Harley Gorton: 9

Paul Heikkila: 32

Cascade

Ward 1

Ralph Schneider: 55

Ward 1, two year

Write-in: 49

Ward 2

Karin Huelsman: 18

Becca Wood: 30

City Judge-Cascade

Lauri Cary: 130

Write-in: 3

Great Falls Neighborhood Councils

Each council has five members. Top five vote getters are selected.  Write-ins will count for neighborhood councils that don’t have a full slate of five or more candidates. City staff uses the write-ins for neighborhood councils to fill vacancies for councils that didn’t have enough candidates.

Council 1

Trevor Cummings: 730

Michael Flaherty: 964

David Foscue: 635

Pam Goodover: 877

Everett Hall:799

Mike Parcel: 684

David Saslav: 550

Council 2

Tim Croft: 701

Frank Speidel: 613

Pam Wagner: 691

Council 3

Sue Dickenson: 1,893

Kathleen Gessaman: 1,677

Aaron Krischel: 1,462

Garri Mauch: 1,421

Eric Peterson: 1,916

Sharon Thompson: 1,616

Council 4

Lauren Cornellier: 1,273

Sandra Guynn: 1,312

Neil Tredray: 1,249

Chris Ward: 1,297

James Whitaker: 1,340

Council 5

Council 6

Michelle Cornellier: 855

Richard Cornellier: 840

Carl Donovan: 902

James Rickley: 855

Tad Stone: 859

Council 7

Troy Lane: 513

Lisa Meyers: 523

Trevor Mikkelsen: 509

Sandra Rice: 585

Allison Tangen: 510

Council 8

Michael Brainard: 1,039

Karen Grove: 1,118

Travis Grove: 1,088

David Price: 1,070

Johnnie Scott: 1,093

Council 9

Barney Danishefsky: 944

Karen Gray: 1,000

Michael Polaske: 962

Judy White: 957