Candidate Jason Chinchilla has emerged as the remaining challenger for City Councilmember Shelley Kloba’s seat in the November election after narrowly taking second over Bill Henekens by just 27 votes in the Aug. 4 primary.

King County Elections has certified the final vote count, with Chinchilla taking 1,772 votes, a total of 16.83 percent, beating out Bill Henkens for second place. Henkens garnered 1,745 votes and 16.57 percent.

Chinchilla, 20, was appointed to the Kirkland Park Board in March. He is student at Bellevue College and plans to major in political science with a minor in history.

Incumbent Kloba took well over the majority of the vote at 6,097 votes and 57.91 percent. Jory Hamilton took 887 votes and 8.42 percent. There were 28 write-in votes, or .27 percent of the total votes.

Kloba was appointed to fill the vacant Position No. 2 seat in 2013 following former councilmember Bob Sternoff’s resignation. She was later elected by voters that same year.

According to King County, approximately 21 percent of registered voters in Kirkland completed a ballot, 10,711 out of 52,126.

The general election will be Tuesday, Nov. 3.