CHAPEL HILL -- Democrat Bernadette Pelissier will face Republican Kevin Wolff for an at-large Orange County Board of Commissioners seat in November, while the inaugural District 2 race is headed for a runoff.

Steve Yuhasz, a Hillsborough surveyor, secured nearly 37 percent of the vote in the newly created district. But that was just short of the 40 percent plurality he needed to stave off a runoff against Efland retiree Leo Allison, who received 28 percent of the vote in the four-way race. Allison said Tuesday night he would request a run-off. It would be held June 24.

Pelissier, 57, a long-time member of the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, Sierra Club and other civic groups, ran on a smart-growth platform focused on protecting the environment and natural resources such as the water supply.

Yuhasz, 57, focused his campaign on the need to recruit businesses and industries to the unincorporated parts of the county.

"We need to do that to enhance our tax base," he said Tuesday evening.

"I think a number of the commissioners already are working hard to do that, and I'm hopeful we can continue to do that in the future."

Voter Patricia Clayton, 56, wouldn't say whom she supported in District 2, but said she's glad the northern part of the county will have some direct representation.

"There aren't a whole lot of jobs here," said Clayton, a Democratic precinct chair in Hillsborough.

"We need some industries. Why do they got to go to Research Triangle, Greensboro, Raleigh to work? There should be something right here."