Nobles County election results started to trickle in shorty after 11:30 Tuesday night.
With all 29 precincts counted in the six-way contest for four seats on the Worthington ISD 518 Board of Education. Matthew Widboom led the way with 3,563 votes, Darla Agard was next at 2,761, Eric Parrish had 2,611 and Ann Mills had 2,498, The two trailers were Stephen Schnieder with 2,412 and Kristin Walerius with 1,900.
In the city of Worthington, former mayor and city council member Mike Kuhle will return to council as he won the Ward 2 special election. Kuhle picked up 1,082 votes (52.19%), while opponents Michelle Ebbers had 608 (29.33%) and Eugenio Lopez had 377 (18.19%). Ward 1 Councilman Chris Kielblock, Ward 2 Council Member Amy Ernst and Council Member At Large Dennis Weber all ran unopposed and won.
At the county level, incumbent District 3 County Commissioner Bob Paplow had 858 votes (69.03% of the vote) to defeat challenger Jean Johnson (381 votes, 30.65%). District 1 County Commissioner Justin Ahlers and District 4 County Commissioner Robert Demuth were running unopposed.
In Jackson County, voters were considering a question pertaining to funding construction of a new Jackson County Law Enforcement Center and Government Center. With all 28 precincts reporting, 71.5% of voters (3,891) opted for the "yes" option, which would allow the county to impose a sales and use tax of 1 percent (for no more than 25 years or until an amount sufficient to pay project costs and associated bonding costs are raised, whichever comes first) to finance the project's construction. A total of 1,554 "no" votes were cast.
Meanwhile, in northwest Iowa, voters in the Okoboji Community School District also voted Tuesday on a $69 million dollar bond issue to build a new elementary school and for an addition and remodeling of the high school. In Dickinson County, results showed 2,567 voting in favor with 1,517 no, for an approval of 62.85%. In Clay County, there were 80 votes in favor and 43 against, which combine for 2,647 yes votes and 1,560 no votes. That's an approval of 62.9%. The measure required 60 percent approval under Iowa law for passage.
In the race for the Minnesota House District 21B seat, incumbent Republican Marj Fogelman of Fulda was on the verge of a win over Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Jon Wilson, the mayor of St. James. With 77 of 83 precincts reporting, Fogelman had 68.61% of the vote.
In District 21A, incumbent Republican Joe Schomacker of Luverne had a dominating 83.89 of the vote in defeating Independence-Alliance challenger Creedence Matthew Petroff of Luverne.
With 534 of 749 precincts in, Republican Brad Finstad of New Ulm is poised to be reelected as U.S. Representative in Minnesota's First District. Finstad had 61.46% of the vote against DFL candidate Rachel Bohman of Rochester.
In the city of Luverne, Patrick Baustian was reelected as mayor. Baustian got 1,366 votes (52.5%) compared to Isaac DeBoer's 1,226 (47.12%). For Council Member Ward 1, it was Dan Nath winning with 790 votes (54.07%) ahead of Josh Gangestad's 670. For Council Member Ward 2, voters chose Marlin Kracht (610 votes, 58.04%) over Lori Hallstrom (437 votes).
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