Carroll County saw nearly 63 percent of registered voters exercise their Constitutional rights, with 9,045 of the 14,362 having their voices heard. Of those ballots cast, 3,543 were submitted through Iowa’s accommodating absentee voting process. Those absentee results were not a predictor of things to come for the night. The final, unofficial, outcomes had two of the three contested local races switching positions as the precincts reported. Initial results saw Brian Best, District 12 Representative Republican incumbent, coming out of the gate with a strong lead over his opponent, Democrat, Peter Leo. But early votes in the other two favored Democratic incumbents, with Supervisor for District Four, Marty Danzer, and Recorder, Kathy Schwaller leading. Both of those races switched over, going to Republican newcomers, Stephanie Hausman taking the Supervisor race and Ashten Wittrock filling the Recorder position. In the total, unofficial, results from the Auditor’s Office, Best recorded 5,826 over Leo’s 2,983. Hausman garnered just shy of 54 percent of the vote, 4,702 to Danzer’s 3,992 and Wittrock received 4,553 votes, coming in at about 52.5 percent over Schwaller, who tallied 4,105 total votes. And in Public Measure A, the Carroll County referendum for a new $8.95 million jail, not one of the precincts reported less than 55 percent approval. To pass, however, the referendum required a super majority of 60 percent, plus one. It passed heavily on the support of the precincts outside of the City of Carroll, with the strongest numbers coming in from: Union Township, which includes Coon Rapids, getting 80.59 percent of the vote; Eden Township, including the city of Templeton, at 72.4 percent; Glidden-Richland Townships, which pulled in 69.41 percent; and Pleasant Valley-Newton Townships, which includes Willey, Dedham and Carrollton, where the measure gained 69.02 percent of the votes. All of these numbers, as well as those from Audubon, Calhoun, Crawford, Greene, Guthrie and Sac Counties can be found by clicking on the election tab on our website.
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