By KEN GARNER
MOUNT AYR, Iowa — Now that election day is come and gone it is time to proclaim the winners of our statewide and local elections.
Here locally in the Ringgold County partisan races, the candidates were all unopposed as Board of Supervisors – Randy Taylor (Rep), County Treasurer – Debra A. Cannon (rep), County Recorder – Kisha Martin (Rep) and County Attorney – Michael Wells (Rep) were all re-elected.
In local non-partisan elections voters elected Darla Sobotka, Bruce Ricker, Steve Roe and Dane Johnson to the Ringgold County Hospital Board of Trustees.
To fill a Hospital Board of Trustee vacancy Clinton L. Spurrier was the only name on the ballot.
For Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioner Vickie Jeanes and Joyce Frost were the only two names on the ballot for two open positions.
For Agriculture Extension Council Jenifer Breneman, Adam M. Triggs, Joshua L. Waske and Logan Stackhouse were the only names on the ballot for four open positions.
For Agriculture Extension Council to fill a vacancy the only name listed was Neva Nachtrieb.
In the race for Iowa State Senator District 9 Steve Baier (Rep) won over Mount Ayr resident James Uhlenkamp (Dem).
At the Iowa state house level Republican Devon Wood won an unopposed race for the District 17 seat in the legislature.
Here are all the results for both the federal and statewide offices that were up for election.
On the federal side in Iowa, Josh Turek (Dem) won the three-way race over Ashley Hinson (Rep) and Thomas Laehn (Lib).
In the continual ongoing battle to represent Iowa U.S. District 3 for U.S. Representative Sarah Trone Garriott (Dem) defeated incumbent Zach Nunn (Rep).
In the statewide races the duo of Rob Sand/Dave Muhlbauer (Dem) were elected to be the next Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Iowa by beating Zach Lahn/Derek Wulf (Rep).
For statewide offices in the executive branch three incumbents won re-election as current Secretary of State Paul D. Pate (Rep) defeated Ryan Peterman (Dem). State Treasurer Roby Smith (Rep) beat challenger John Norwood (Dem) and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig (Rep) beat Chris Jones (Dem).
In the other two executive races Nate Willems (Dem) defeated incumbent Brenna Bird (Rep) to become Attorney General. Taylor Wettach (Dem) beat Chris Coumoyer (Rep) for Auditor of State.
Iowa voters also passed the Constitutional Amendment on the ballot.
