Diane Selmer edges Dan Koukol in GOP county board race

Political newcomer Diane Selmer maintained her lead over incumbent Dan Koukol to win the Republican Party's nomination for a seat on the Kendall County Board in District 2 after mail-in, absentee ballots were counted Tuesday night.

Selmer topped Koukol by just 15 votes after all absentee ballots were tabulated by the Kendall County Clerk's Office and Aurora Election Commission. The final unofficial results including all absentee ballots show Selmer with 3,081 votes to Koukol's 3,066 votes.

Tuesday was the cutoff date for those absentee ballots from the March 15 primary election to arrive in the mail to be counted.

It appeared late on election night that Koukol had won the nomination by 10 votes with all precincts reporting in District 2, including precincts counted by the Kendall County Clerk's Office and two of three precincts counted by the Aurora Election Commission.

However, once the third precinct's results were reported the day after the election, Selmer pushed ahead of Koukol by the slim margin of 17 votes. That lead narrowed to 15 on Tuesday afternoon after the Kendall County Clerk's Office tabulated the final absentee ballots that came in the mail. The Aurora Election Commission finished counting mail-in votes later Tuesday night and posted the results on the agency's website.

District 2 has three open seats. Also winning the GOP nomination were Matthew Kellogg of NaAuSay Township and Tony Giles of Oswego. The three will face Democratic incumbent Elizabeth Flowers and Kristine Heiman, who both won their party's nomination running unopposed.

Selmer is making her first bid for election to the county board. Last year she ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Oswego Village Board.

Koukol has served on the board since 2010.