JOHNSON CITY — Pedernales Electric Cooperative members elected two new board directors representing districts that include large portions of Hays County, according to results announced today.

In District 6, Paul Graf, a management and energy industry consultant who lives in Spring Branch, won 13,330 votes to beat incumbent Larry Landaker, a Wimberley real estate agent who won 7,727 votes. Max Hosford, a Fischer resident employed as the finance director for a real estate consulting firm, won 1,632 votes. A past PEC board president, Landaker was elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2012.

In District 7, San Marcos attorney Amy Lea SJ Akers won a tight race with Jeff Barton, a former Hays County commissioner and Mountain City area resident, 9,943 votes to 9,327. A third candidate, Douglas Kadjar of Kyle,won 3,357 votes. Akers also represents parts of Hays and Caldwell counties on the Edwards Aquifer Authority board of directors, a position to which she was elected in November.

In the only other directorship election on the ballot, incumbent Cristi Clement of Marble Falls kept her board seat with 11,500 votes to Burnet resident Mark Axford’s 11,228 votes. Elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2012, Clement is set to serve a third three-year term that will expire in 2018.

Although PEC’s 8,100-square-mile service area is divided into board director districts, any cooperative member can vote in every director election, regardless of where they live. Of 226,880 cooperative members eligible to vote, 23,404 cast ballots, about 10.3 percent, said officials of Survey & Ballot Systems Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based firm