So much for anger at incumbents.

In South Kitsap, at least, voters were either satisfied with the status quo or uninspired by the alternatives in Tuesday night’s general election, as not a single challenger managed to break through.

The closest we came to an upset was in the 26th District’s House of Representatives race between Position 2 incumbent Larry Seaquist and newcomer Doug Richards.

With thousands of absentee votes still trickling in both here in Kitsap and in Pierce County, Seaquist’s election night margin of just more than 1,000 votes is hardly insurmountable, but Richards — a South Kitsap Fire and Rescue battalion chief — has a lot of ground to make up.

Fellow 26th District incumbent Rep. Jan Angel, the delegation’s lone Republican, racked up 61 percent of the vote against retired Gig Harbor physician Sumner Schoenike, who made universal healthcare his signature issue in a year when voters were still seething about having been force-fed Obamacare last spring.

Sen. Derek Kilmer, with 57 percent of the vote, handily defeated underfunded Republican newcomer Marty McClendon by deftly positioning himself as a pro-business, fiscally conservative Democrat.

At the county level, Central Kitsap Commissioner Josh Brown exploited a 2-to-1 spending advantage and an opponent in Abby Burlingame whose résumé is even less impressive than his to eke out a four-point win.

Throw in a resounding defeat for the library’s lid lift request and the success of several budget-cutting state initiatives, and you have a mandate to reduce taxes and promote private business.

And in these parts, it appears we’ll be doing so with pretty much the same cast of characters.