Julie Powell leads challenger Alison Dunn by just 225 votes in the Davis School Board District 3 race, with thousands of ballots still being counted across Davis County.

As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, Powell had 6,080 votes (50.94%) to Dunn's 5,855 (49.06%), according to the Standard-Examiner. The margin barely budged from election night, when Powell led by 170 votes.

The District 6 race is a different story. Incumbent Kristen Hogan held 6,345 votes (62.24%) to challenger Jane Neal's 3,808 (37.51%).

Both races are nonpartisan, according to the Davis County sample ballot.

Ballots still outstanding

Davis County officials said around noon Wednesday that roughly 30,000 ballots remained to be counted, with the bulk expected to be processed by 5 p.m. that day, the Standard-Examiner reported. The county's elections page showed 96,951 ballots counted out of an estimated 120,109 received, as of 5:50 p.m. Nov. 4. Another 20,449 ballots were still in process and 3,068 had been flagged as rejected but curable, meaning voters could still resolve signature or ID issues.

Results become official after the canvass on Nov. 17, according to the county.

Two incumbents, two challengers

Powell and Hogan have both served on the seven-member Davis County Board of Education since January 2023, as we reported Sept. 8. Powell chairs the board's Audit Committee. She is an attorney who said in a Standard-Examiner candidate survey that she took a hiatus from her law firm to focus on board duties.

Dunn, who identified herself as Farmington High Community Council president in the same Standard-Examiner survey, said she paired over a decade of classroom experience with executive business leadership. She holds an MBA and was named a 2026 Utah Business "30 Women to Watch" honoree, according to her survey responses.

Neal, the District 6 challenger, said in an October Standard-Examiner survey that her top priority was opposing book removals in Davis School District. No on-record campaign statements from Hogan were available in the research for this article.

What's at stake

The board governs Davis School District, the second-largest district in Utah with more than 72,000 students. Superintendent Dan Linford leads the district. Board votes on budgets, staffing and curriculum shape classrooms across Davis County, including campuses in Bountiful, Woods Cross, North Salt Lake and Farmington.

Two other board seats, Districts 5 and 7, were uncontested. Incumbents Michelle Barber and Emily Price ran unopposed.

The next ballot update from Davis County could shift the District 3 margin in either direction.