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Election results: City offices

On Tuesday, cities throughout Lyon County held elections for offices like mayor and city council members. The following are unofficial vote totals in city elections, as reported by the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. BALATON The city of Balaton had the office of mayor and two city council seats up for election. In the mayoral race, Tori DeVries ran unopposed, and received 209 votes, according to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. In the city council election, a total of three candidates were running for two open seats. Unofficial vote totals said the race was a ...

Allen, Brink, Green lead MPS board election

MARSHALL — Voters in the Marshall Public School District selected three candidates to serve on the school board Tuesday. According to unofficial vote totals reported by the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office, out of six total candidates, Julie Allen, Sara Brink and Nathan Green were in the lead. The Secretary of State’s Office reported that Allen received 3,485 votes in the school board election. Brink, a current school board member, received 3,406 votes. Green received 3,283 votes. School board candidates Mike Braithwaite, Ashley Pippin, and Bob Prince received 1,723 ...

Lynd school referendum fails

The Lynd Public School District had both a school board election and a referendum this year. The referendum, which proposed to increase the school district’s general education revenue by $700 per pupil, narrowly failed with voters, according to unofficial vote totals from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. A total of 257 voters said ‘no’ to the referendum question, and 247 voters said ‘yes.’ Lynd was also holding elections for a total of three school board members, and had six candidates running. According to the Secretary of State’s Office, candidates David ...

Seifert, Hennen win in state Senate & House races

Republican candidate Braxton Seifert was the victor in Tuesday’s election for Minnesota state Senate District 15, according to unofficial vote totals reported by the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. At 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, with 150 out of 171 precincts in the district reporting in, Seifert had over 66% of the vote. Seifert had a total of 21,260 votes, and DFL candidate Andrea Boettger had 10,544 votes, the Secretary of State’s Office said. In the race for Minnesota state House of Representatives District 15A, Republican candidate Bradley Hennen also won, according to ...

Fischbach re-elected in CD 7

U.S. Rep. Michelle Fishbach won re-election in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to unofficial vote totals from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office. With more than 89% of precincts in CD 7 reporting in, Fischbach had more than 64% of the vote. Fischbach had a total of 193,200 votes, with DFL challenger Erik Osberg receiving 105,229 votes, unofficial totals said. Fischbach led within Lyon County, receiving about 62% of the vote there. In a news release Tuesday night, Fischbach gave a statement on her re-election. “Western Minnesotans made ...