2016 local election results

Published 8:43 pm Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Watch here for election results for Freeborn County. Get the numbers faster than anywhere else straight from the Freeborn County Auditor-Treasurer’s Office.

Polls closed at 8 p.m. today. Results will come in over the course of the evening and likely will wrap up between 11 p.m. and midnight.

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(40 out of 40 precincts reporting)

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Albert Lea City Council

Ward 1

Craig Havener 580 35.76%
Rich Murray 1267 63.83%

 

Ward 3

Jason Howland 998 67.02%
Roger Swanson 490 32.91%

 

Ward 5

Robert Rasmussen 484 53.60%
Paul Shea 411 45.51%

 

Freeborn County

1st District

Ronald Jacobsen 1,125 35.46%
Glen Mathiason 2,044 64.42%

 

3rd District

Jim Nelson 1,554  57.75%
David Shoff 1,127 41.88%

 

5th District

Lynn Berven 1,234 42.38%
Mike Lee 1,670 57.35%

 

Albert Lea

Albert Lea School Board

Joseph Ferguson 1,145 4.00%
Cynthia Gail 755 2.64%
Angie Hanson 4,404 15.40%
Sonjia Hill 2,868 10.03%
Julie Johnson 3,564 12.47%
Ellen Kehr 1,953 6.83%
Kendall Langseth 1,573 5.50%
Ken Petersen 3,959 13.85%
Aaron Phillips 2,495 8.73%
Neal Skaar 5,790 20.25%

 

District 27A Representative

Peggy Bennett 9,808 62.34%
Gary Schindler 5,917 37.61%

 

District 27 Senator

Gene Dornink 7,163 45.57%
Dan Sparks 8,547 54.37%

 

 

1st District U.S. House

Jim Hagedorn 7,455 47.04%
Tim Walz 8,386 52.92%

 

Presidential

Hillary Clinton 6,041 37.64%
Donald Trump 8,808 54.89%
Darrell Castle 48 .30%
“Rocky” Roque De La Fuente 9 .06%
Gary Johnson 511 3.18%
Alyson Kennedy 14 .09%
Evan McMullin 258 1.61%
Jill Stein 169 1.05%
Dan R. Vacek 71 .44%

 

Remove lawmakers’ power to set their own pay

Yes 12,797 81.90%
No 2,828 18.10%

 

Local option sales tax renewal

Yes 6,035 71.56%
No 2,399 28.44%

 

Approval of a seven-member District 241 school board

Yes 7,585 69.08%
No 3,395 30.92%