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Clark County, Washington

Clark County Auditor

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4 candidates are tracked for Clark County Auditor on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Ty Stober, Sharon Wylie, Mitchell Kelly and Eileen Quiring O'Brien. Candidate information follows official Clark County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.

Open seat: sitting Auditor Greg Kimsey is not on the certified filing list. Washington runs a top-two primary on August 4, 2026: every candidate for an office appears on one ballot, any voter may participate regardless of party, and the two highest vote-getters advance to November 3.

Ty Stober

Nonpartisan

A Vancouver city councilmember and former mayor pro tem who also sits on the C-TRAN board and the boards of the Association of Washington Cities and the National League of Cities, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet and the City of Vancouver's official council roster. His pamphlet entry lists private sector leadership in technology, energy efficiency and consumer products, including profit and loss responsibility for an 11 million dollar business unit, plus certification as an elections observer, and he holds an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.

2026 priorities

Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.

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Sharon Wylie

Nonpartisan

The 49th Legislative District state representative since 2011, leaving that seat to seek this office, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. Her pamphlet entry lists earlier work as a government relations manager for Clark, Kitsap and Jefferson counties, city administrator in Tukwila and a consultant to Multnomah County and Metro, and service in the Oregon Legislature from 1993 to 1998.

2026 priorities

Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-07-31.

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Mitchell Kelly

Nonpartisan

A deputy county auditor in the Clark County Auditor's Office who previously served as an assistant state auditor for the Washington State Auditor's Office, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. That entry also lists him as a former reporting and analysis manager in the auditor's office and a financial analyst at Southwest Washington Behavioral Health, and records an MBA from Arizona State University and an accounting degree from Brigham Young University.

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Eileen Quiring O'Brien

Nonpartisan

A small business owner and licensed real estate broker and appraiser who chaired the Clark County Council from 2019 to 2022 and represented District 4 from 2016 to 2019, per the Clark County voters' pamphlet. Before county government she served in the Oregon House from 1995 to 1997 and the Oregon Senate from 1997 to 2001, where she was majority whip, per the same entry, and she has served on the Clark County Planning Commission and Board of Equalization.

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Candidate roster from official Clark County Supervisor of Elections filings, last verified 2026-07-31. Bios and priorities carry their attribution inline.
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