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Results from balloting Tuesday this week have not been canvassed and made final as of print deadline, but preliminary totals show a longtime county commissioner was removed, the North Branch mayor was ousted by a former employee of the same city and the majority of county voters embraced a few state and federal candidates who ultimately were not elected.  

The total registered voters in Chisago County precincts was reported election morning at 42, 459, according to the Office of Secretary of State and total votes cast in the county was 29,421. 

In the U.S. Senate race Michele Tafoya got more votes from Chisago County than Peggy Flanagan did 62 percent to 34 percent. Flanagan won the seat statewide.

CD8 incumbent U.S. Representative Pete Stauber was re-elected and also got more votes here in the county than his challenger Trina Swanson, (county tally 62 percent to 38 percent respectively.) Overall the Eighth Congressional District voters gave Stauber 190,743 votes and Swanson 168,350.  In just Chisago County she received 11.046 and Rep. Stauber got 18,098 votes.

Chisago County State Senator Mark Koran was re-elected with the most votes in his senate district 28.  Max Glenna, his challenger, dropped out too late to delete his name from the ballot, and still got 36 percent of the votes here.  The Chisago County voters gave Koran 16,900 votes and Glenna got 9, 472.  A small area of Chisago County to the west is in Senate District 13 and the incumbent Jason Rarick was re-elected with 1,553 votes to Mary Carlson’s 760.

STATE Representative for district 29B, Max Rymer, was returned to office with 13,883 votes to Daniel Colten Schmidt’s 8,223.  In district 28A incumbent Jimmy Gordon was re-elected with 2,737 votes to Tim Dummer’s 1,615. And, in the very northern end of Chisago County District 11B STATE Rep Nathan Nelson was re-seated with 1,585 votes to 773 for Jack L’Heaureux. 

Chisago County Commissioner Rick. Greene was defeated by Chris DuBose.  This commissioner district went 2,489 for Greene and 2,845 for DuBose.  Also, incumbent Commissioner Marlys Dunne was re-seated with 2,711 votes. Her challenger Cyle Cramer earned 1,427 votes.  In the county commissioner district that encompasses just the city of North Branch, the incumbent Jim Swenson opted not to seek re-election and the only one who filed was Tim MacMillan and was unopposed.  MacMillan comes from having served on the North Branch School Board.

On the topic of School Boards, Chisago Lakes school district voters seated three members— incumbents Sarah Aadland, Jen Penzenstadler and newcomer Aaron Olson. 

North Branch School Board had only incumbents on the ballot and these three— Sarah Grovender, Adam Trampe and Jesse LaValla were re-seated.

In North Branch incumbent mayor Kevin Schieber was defeated by Shawn Williams, 2,210 to 2,273.

Another city, Taylors Falls, will have Robert Bayer as its new mayor.  Incumbent Brandon Weiberg did not seek re-election.  Bayer got 288 votes and challenger Geri Aanonsen got 207. 

Chisago County sheriff Brandon Thyen and County Attorney Janet Reiter had no challengers.

In the Governor’s race Chisago County went for Lisa Demuth, who eventually lost to Amy Klobuchar.  County vote totals for Demuth were 18,115 and 10,722 county voters went for Klobuchar.  Statewide the totals were Klobuchar 1,569,094 and Lisa Demuth 1,205,788.

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