(Le Mars) — The election results have been tabulated and it appears the big winners in Tuesday’s election were Brian Bruns, and Mark Sturgeon for the city council race, and for the Le Mars Community Board of Education, Lorraine DeJong will join the school board, and Makenzie Lang will return to the school board.
Bruns and Sturgeon Win City Council Seats
DeJong and Lang Win School Board Seats
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, in Ward 1 for city council new comer Brian Bruns was able to edge out a victory over Ken Nelson who had been on the city council for 23 and a half years. The vote tally shows Bruns with 228 votes to Nelson’s 216. As for Ward 3, Mark Sturgeon dominated the race against Dan Dembinski by receiving 61 percent of the votes to Dembinski’s 38 percent. With 178 votes that were cast, Sturgeon picked up 109 votes with Dembinski’s 68 votes. As for the Le Mars Community Board of Education races, Lorraine DeJong was able to capture the District 1 race against the three other candidates. DeJong received 42 percent, or 552 of the nearly 1300 votes cast to win the four-way race. Ashley Knapp garnered 397 votes, Gina Vacura collected 292 votes, and Mary Milder had 53 votes. In the school board race between Wanda Wichers and Makenzie Lang for the District 4 position, Lang was able to get 57 percent, or 712 votes against Wichers nearly 43 percent or 536 votes. Aaron Tolzin and Jill Feurerhelm ran unopposed for District 2 and District 5 respectfully for the Le Mars Community Board of Education, and will be seated as school board directors during the November 11th scheduled school board meeting.
In other election results, Rob Bixenman was running unopposed for the position of mayor. Bixenman gathered 897 votes. There were 79 write-in votes. The At-large city council position had Clark Goodchild as the only candidate. Goodchild, of course retains his seat on the city council, but moving from representing Ward 1 to the At-large position. Goodchild had 935 votes. Voters re-elected the two Floyd Valley Healthcare trustees. Craig Bauerly and Kelli Flack had unopposed races and will retain their seats as a hospital trustee.
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https://electionresults.iowa.gov/IA/Plymouth/111470/web.278093/#/summary
