CANTON -- A four-way race for two County Coroner positions is tightly contested with Democrat James Sienkiewycz leading with 6,835, followed closely by Republican James Amo with 5,710 votes.
Just a few hundred votes behind is Republican Steven Cary with 5,105 and just 67 votes for a write-in candidate.
Therese Miner is running as a write-in candidate for coroner this year.
Sienkiewycz has served as a county coroner since 2007. He said he first ran for the position because he wanted families to receive better communication about what happened to their loved ones and what to expect after an unexpected death.

A lifelong Ogdensburg resident, Amo spent more than two decades with the Ogdensburg Volunteer Rescue Squad, where he served as an emergency medical technician and held instructor certifications in CPR, first aid and automated external defibrillator training.
Amo said his emergency response experience taught him to remain calm, make sound decisions and treat people with dignity during difficult situations.
Cary was born and raised in St. Lawrence County and has lived in Canton for nearly 20 years. He owns O’Leary Funeral Service and is chief of the Canton Fire Department. He also previously worked as an emergency medical technician serving Canton and surrounding communities.
Cary said his background has given him experience handling difficult situations and working with families during times of loss.
His work in funeral service, fire and EMS has exposed him to tragedy, he said, helping him understand how to respond to difficult scenes while treating families with care.
Miner, an archaeologist who works in cultural resource management, studied political science and anthropology at SUNY Potsdam in the 1980s. She returned to Potsdam in 2010 and has raised her two children in the area.
Miner said concerns about how deaths are investigated in the county prompted her to run. She also ran a write-in campaign last year to raise concerns about what she believes were incorrectly determined causes and manners of death.
At the local level, Republican James LaFave has a significant lead in the race for Ogdensburg City Council, up 714 to 156 write-ins.
In the village of Rensselaer Falls, Democrat Connie McAllister leads Democrat Nicholas Carlton 22 to 15.
In the race for trustee in the village of Gouverneur, Democrat and Republican and Democratic candidate Charles Newvine leads Republican Theodore Walters 87 to 30.
In Heuvelton, Republican E. Jack Wood leads Republican Carol Basford in the race for trustee by a slim margin of 38 to 36.
In Pitcairn, Democrat Allen Bango leads Republican Jerry McIntosh in the race for Superintendent of Highways by a margin of 18 to 15.
In Norfolk, Democrat Rachael Mulvana is leading incumbent Republican Derek Stevenson in the race for Town Justice by a margin of 150 to 87.
All results are unofficial and include early voting and absentee ballots received before yesterday.