(La Porte, IN) - Most of the machine votes cast in La Porte County before and during Tuesday’s election were counted.

 

Mail-in ballots will not start being tallied until Wednesday morning.

 

Among the surprises is the over 4,000 lead republican Joe Haney has over two term incumbent democrat Dr. Vidya Kora in the race for La Porte County Commissioner.

 

Republican Tim Stabosz was leading democrat Lynne Spevak by over 3,000 votes in the race for LaPorte County Auditor.

 

Another republican, Ela Bilderback, also had a more than 3,000 vote advantage over incumbent La Porte County Recorder Lois Sosinski.

 

Republicans Earl Cunningham, Connie Gramarossa and Brett Kessler were also the top three vote getters, so far, for the three open seats on the La Porte County Council.

 

The closest incumbent democrat in the race was Mike Mollenhauer, who was over 300 votes behind Kessler.

 

About 7,500 mail-in ballots were left to the counted.