Though the results are still yet to be finalized and approved, Utah’s election website shows every precinct within Wasatch County has completed processing incoming ballots for Tuesday’s primary election, and the updated results hold true to the early determinations they predicted earlier this week.

Over 5,000 Republicans voted, and challenger Bob Adams leads incumbent Wasatch County Assessor Todd Griffin by over 2,000 votes, with 3,624 total supporters who cast their ballots. Griffin has 1,456.

Racing to become the Republican candidate for County Council Seat B, Colleen Bonner has garnered 3,335 votes to Nick Lopez’s 1,870.

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Adams, who has government experience as a city manager, said he has not been impressed with Griffin’s performance as an assessor, which has landed his name on the wrong side of a lawsuit that claims he unfairly and improperly valued properties in different areas of Wasatch County.

“In some sense, I could run on his record,” Adams said in February as he prepared for the Republican caucus. “There’s a lot of people that have some problems, which is how I got involved to begin with.”

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If elected, Adams said he plans to to make sure the Assessor’s Office is operated transparently and is able to help those with issues or problems.

Bonner, a former mayor and councilor of Midway, decided to once again throw her hat into the ring of local politics after being ousted from her mayoral position when she ran for reelection in 2017. 

After she recently retired from more than four decades as a cosmotologist, she decided she has something more to give to the community. 

“I really want to focus on the health of the community as it grows,” she said early this year. “How do we manage that so we can keep our clean air and we can have safe transportation? Good planning has always been something that I feel is really important.”

If the current early results are made official, both Adams and Bonner will go onto Wasatch County’s general election ballot uncontested in November.

“I want to focus on revisiting the general plan and making sure that they’re still on track for the kind of vision that the county’s had for many years. I don’t think we want the vision to change,” Bonner said after the excitement of her impending victory began to wind down. “I really want to look at how we maintain that rural feel in the unincorporated areas of the county.”

While she understands surrounding communities have their own codes and general plans regarding development — some denser and more developed than others — she hopes to work with community leaders from surrounding municipalities to make sure areas bordering the unincorporated county allow a considerable buffer for the rural atmosphere.

Another focus she plans to address is the often-discussed and long-awaited Heber Valley Bypass, a Utah Department of Transportation project that’s gone through several extended deadlines as the county has continues to develop, making what were considered viable designs less tenable.

Bonner hopes to work with other involved community leaders and groups to get the project done without it being “a big fight.”

“It’s actually time to sit down at the table and figure it out,” she said. “I think we can do it. I think we can sit down and make this work. It’s going to take everybody giving a little bit and making some adjustments.”

If it needs to go through the North Fields, she said it should “be very minimal impact” and should not run straight through the middle of the area.

Speaking about another ongoing issue in Heber Valley, Bonner said she was supportive of Heber City’s Community Reinvestment Agency project that aims to partner with surrounding tax entities — primarily Wasatch County and the Wasatch County School District — to use increment tax financing for downtown infrastructure projects.

“I sat in the meeting when Heber City came in and proposed that, and I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding of what it really is,” she said. “I would vote yes as long as Heber City is supportive of coming up with a resolution for the traffic situation.” 

She said the he-said-she-said conversations aren’t helping but current commuter traffic on Heber City’s Main Street makes her question if a downtown redevelopment project could be successful in the community.

On a national and state level, Tuesday’s early results have also remained unchanged as Wasatch County Republicans preferred Rep. John Curtis for U.S. Senate, Mike Kennedy for U.S. House District 3, Gov. Spencer Cox for another term, and Derek Brown for attorney general.