Only absentee votes counted in Lyon County

YERINGTON - Fernley may be Nevada's newest city if election results from early this morning bear out.

With 13 of 16 precincts counted in Lyon County by 12:30 a.m., a vote on Fernley's incorporation was leading 1,170 votes to 931.

The favored candidates for the two contested Lyon judges seats held comfortable leads.

Lyon County District Attorney Robert Estes had the same 58 to 41 percent margin for the new judge's position for the Third District Court. As of 12:30 a.m., Estes led Wayne Pederson 9,200 votes to 6,489.

Estes and Yerington attorney Wayne Pederson each wanted to become the new third judge for the district court serving Lyon and Churchill counties.

Attorney William Rogers had a comfortable lead over John Bennetts in the race for Dayton Township justice of the peace.

Rogers had 1,336 votes to Bennetts' 1,145 votes with 13 of 16 precincts reporting.

As of 12:30 a.m., Kimberly Sayre was leading Jim Martin for Lyon County School Board District 5 and Jim Snyder was ahead of Kimberly Turner in District 7. Sayre had 4,239 votes to Martin's 2,784. Snyder had 4,201 votes to Turner's 2,909 votes.

Central Lyon County Fire Protection director Chuck Ayers was trailing challenger Steve McLaughlin. McLauglin led Ayers 1,100 votes to 1,081.

With three precincts still out, the Lyon County School District bond issue was ahead 4,756 votes to 3,773.

But none of the other tax questions facing central Lyon County residents were doing well.

A 17-cent Central Lyon fire property tax increase was losing 1,609 votes to 1,068 and a 5-cent tax to raise money to build Central Lyon parks was losing 1,755 to 806.

A 10-cent fire property tax increase for North Lyon County was also losing 1,212 votes to 948.