Businessman Scott Burnham has won the spot on the November ballot for Eastern District County Commissioner. 

Burnham beat out incumbent Dan Hausman with 62.31% of the vote.

“It was a great win,” Burnham said. “It was a hard fought race and it’s been a great experience, a very humbling experience and I’m just extremely excited and proud of the support that I got here from the voters in Buchanan County.” 

Burnham said he’s soaking in Tuesday night’s win but will continue working now until the November election. 

“I don’t know that there’s going to be a lot of change in my game plan,” Burnham said. “We just went out and we talked to the people, knocked on a lot of doors and made some phone calls, just out visiting, getting information, ideas and beliefs from different people in our community. We listened to them and we shared our message and tried to stay on message and that was bringing honesty and integrity and accountability to the courthouse.” 

Burnham faces Democratic challenger Tom Archdekin in the November election.