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County Commissioner District 2

Election Results

Candidate Votes Pct
Brian Dansel (R) 1,869 63.90%
Cynthia Bonneau-Green (D) 1,056 36.10%

* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.

The Candidates

Brian Dansel

Party:
Republican
Age:
41
City:
Republic, Washington

Education: Earned Associate of Arts degree from Walla Walla Community College. Graduated from Republic High School.

Work experience: Former golf pro, contractor.

Political experience: Elected as Ferry County Commissioner in 2010. Won election to state Senate in 2013 and served as vice chair of both the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources committees. Joined Trump Administration in 2017 as a special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculcuture and served as an advisor on the National Economic Council. Later in 2017 appointed as executive director of the USDA’s Washington State Farm Service Agency. In 2019, he was appointed as the USDA’s Pacific Northwest regional director. He was appointed to a seat on the Ferry County Commission in 2023.

Family: Married, one son.

Cynthia Bonneau-Green

Party:
Democrat