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Karen Keys-Gamarra bested three challengers Aug. 29 in a special election to fill a vacant seat on the Fairfax County School Board.
Keys-Gamarra, an attorney who lives in Oakton, will serve the unexpired term of Jeanette Hough (At-Large), who resigned in May so she could accompany her husband on an overseas work assignment.
Turnout was a fairly anemic 10.4 percent in the rainy special election, which occurred the day after Fairfax County Public Schools began fall classes.
According to unofficial tallies from the Fairfax County Office of Elections, Keys-Gamarra garnered 41,519 votes, or about two-thirds of the total. Chris Grisafe came in second with 21,389 votes, followed by Michael Owens with 1,346 votes and Sandra Allen with 719 ballots.
The county’s initial vote tallies did not list absentee or provisional votes. Keys-Gamarra won in all nine of the county’s magisterial districts. Grisafe’s closest challenge to her came in Springfield District, where he received 3,773 votes to Keys-Gamarra’s 4,431.
“People seem to be aware and coming to the polls knowing who they’re going to vote for,” Keys-Gamarra said while campaigning near the polling station in the back of Fairview Elementary School in Burke.
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