Voters turned out in large numbers to cast ballots for city, school district, county and state offices Tuesday, Nov. 3. Final results hit the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website just before midnight.
Additional information will be in the Nov. 12 print edition of The New Prague Times.
New Prague City Council
Voters in New Prague elected Councilor Shawn Ryan as the city’s next mayor by a 2,470 to 854 margin over Councilor Rik Seiler. Ryan will replace interim Mayor Chuck Nickolay at the end of the term.
In the race for two New Prague City Council seats, Brian Paulson (1,597 votes) and Maggie Bass (1,475 votes) were the winners. The rest of the field included Todd Klehn (1,068), Dan Meyer (975) and Bradley Wagner (858). There were 35 write-in votes.
New Prague School Board
The race for three seats on the school board saw directors Ann M. Christy (5,008 votes) elected and Karen S. Steinhoff (4,893 votes) re-elected. Jon Beulke (4,692 votes) won the third seat.
Director Dan Call finished fourth (4,512 votes). There were 184 write-in votes.
Elko New Market City Council
Josh Berg, the lone candidate for the mayor’s seat in Elko New Market, received 1,715 votes. There were 71 write-in votes.
In the race for two seats on the ENM City Council, Nicole Weber (1,223 votes) and Andrew Russell (1,054 votes) were the top vote-getters. Kate Timmerman finished third with 1,015 votes.
Heidelberg City Council
Voters in Heidelberg selected Rachel Meger to the city council, 59-56, along with Matt Graf.
Douglas Kilian received 50 votes in a special election for a city council seat. There were 14 write-in votes.
Lonsdale City Council
Tom Berg received 1,432 votes for mayor to 732 votes for Scott Pelava.
In the race for two seats on the Lonsdale City Council, Brian Wermerskirchen was the top vote-getter with 1,135 votes. Tim Jurgens received 956 votes. Matthew Johnson finished third with 817 votes and Curtis Lawson was fourth at 381. Charlie Peterfeso received 210 votes and there were 30 write-in votes.
Montgomery City Council
Tom Eisert, the lone candidate for mayor, received 1,039 votes. There were 71 write-in votes.
Of the two council seats, Zachary Matson received 953 votes and Mark Arendt received 807 votes. There were 23 write-in votes.
Scott County
Scott County Attorney Ron Hocevar won re-election over Allen Andersen, 32,677 to 26,248.
Sheriff Luke Hennen was unopposed in his re-election bid. He received 56,823 votes.
House District 22B
Rep. Terry Stier, R-Belle Plaine, topped Mary Nesgoda, DFL-Le Sueur, 13,316 to 6,538.
House District 57A
Rep. Jon Koznick, R-Lakeville, defeated JD Delgado, DFL-Elko New Market, 13,867 to 9.927.
House District 58A
Rep. Kristi Pursell, DFL-Northfield, defeated Steven E. Cherney, R-Lonsdale, 12,523 to 9,809.
Senate District 22
Jeremy Munson, R-Lake Crystal, defeated DFLer Marisa Ulmen, 24,270 to 12,998.
Senate District 57
Zach Duckworth, R-Lakeville, defeated DFLer Steven Schroer of Lakeville, 26,262 to 22,325.
Senate District 58
DFLer Mark Legvold of Northfield narrowly defeated Bill Lieske, R-Lonsdale, 22,889 to 22,226.