Two Carbon County officeholders — Sheriff Anthony Harvilla and Coroner Robert W. Miller Jr. — locked up re-election bids during the primary election held on May 21. Both gained sufficient write-in votes to win dual nominations on the ballot for second four-year terms.

The two Democrats were unopposed on their party’s ballot and while there were no Republican candidates for either position, they received in excess of the 100-vote requirement to win the vacant nomination.

Harvilla, of Tresckow, received 3,854 Democratic votes and then collected 121 write-in votes from GOP members while Miller, a resident of Mahoning Township, tallied 3,819 Democratic votes and 135 Republican write-in votes. The two men were elected to their first four-year terms in 2015.

Meanwhile, there were no significant changes in the vote totals of county candidates upon the completion of the official recertification of the vote by election office personnel. The county’s board of elections certified the following results:

Commissioner

Democrats Rocky Ahner, Lehighton, 2,460 votes, and Robert “Bob” Jacobs, Towamensing Township, 2,339 votes, won nominations over Shawn M. Kresge, Penn Forest Township, 1,958 votes.

Republicans Wayne E. Nothstein, an incumbent from Lehighton, 2,757 votes, and Chris Lukasevich, Jim Thorpe, 2,521 votes, won nominations over incumbent Tom J. Gerhard, Packer Township, 2,391 votes, Jason Frey, Franklin Township, 1,913 votes, and Tom Boyko, Lansford, 478 votes.

Ahner and Jacobs will face Nothstein and Lukasevich in the General Election, with three people to win four-year terms.

Controller

Democrat Thomas “TJ” McCall, Summit Hill, 3,822 votes, will face Republican Mark Sverchek, Lehighton, 4,338 votes.

Recorder of Deeds

Late Democrat Emmett P. McCall, who was an incumbent, received 3,543 complimentary votes to win the nomination, and has been replaced by Bill Richards, Nesquehoning, deputy chief of staff to state Sen. John Yudichak, D-Carbon/Luzerne, on the ballot. He will face Republican Donna L. Gentile, Jim Thorpe, 4,200 votes.

Clerk of Courts

Incumbent Democrat Francine Heaney, Nesquehoning, 3,854 votes, will face Republican Tyra Boni, Franklin Township, 2,772 votes, who won over Kathy McGuire, Jim Thorpe, 2,203 votes.

District Attorney

Incumbent Democrat Jean Engler, Jim Thorpe, 3,752 votes, will face Republican Michael Greek, Nesquehoning, 4,310 votes.

Prothonotary

Incumbent Democrat Joann Behrens, Penn Forest Township, 3,856 votes, will face Republican Kayla Semmel, Mahoning Township, 4,168 votes.