County, state, federal races

Waupaca County District 9 Supervisor James Nygaard was re-elected April 7.

He defeated challenger Joel Bartel 336-306.

However, Bartel has requested a recount, saying some voters received the wrong absentee ballots.

In District 4, Dennis Wengeleski received 256 votes, while Lynn Jepson, Sr. garnered 200.

Wengeleski will replace Darrell Handrich, who did not seek re-election to the Waupaca County Board.

In the Democratic presidential primary, former vice president Joe Biden garnered 3,853 and Sen. Bernie Sanders received 1,583 votes in Waupaca County.

Statewide, Biden earned 581,303 and Sanders 293,581 votes.

President Trump garnered 7,345 votes in Waupaca County and 615,601 statewide.

In the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Dane County Judge Jill Karofsky defeated incumbent Justice Daniel Kelly 692,523 to 855,982 with 99% of the state’s precincts reporting.

In Waupaca County, Kelly received the most votes at 7,541 to 5,735.

Voters in Waupaca County approved Marsy’s law, a constitutional amendment that gives crime victims additional rights, 9,717 to 3,119.

Wisconsin voters favored the referendum 1.47 million to 370,829.

Chesnut re-elected

Lori Chesnut was re-elected to another term on Waupaca’s common council in the April 7 election.

In the race for the city’s 4th Aldermanic District seat, Chesnut received 157 votes, while challenger Todd Forseth received 121 votes.

It was the first time Forseth sought a political office.

This is Chesnut’s second tenure serving on the council.

She was appointed to serve the district in January 1997, following a council member’s resignation.

Chesnut represented the district through March 1999, resigning when she moved outside the city.

In 2012, she moved back into the district, and was appointed to the council again in June 2015.

That appointment also followed an alderperson’s resignation.

Chesnut ran unopposed in 2016 and 2018.

Unopposed and also re-elected in the April 7 election were Mayor Brian Smith, David Peterson in the 1st Aldermanic District, Eric Olson in the 2nd Aldermanic District, Paul Mayou in the 3rd Aldermanic District and Alan Kjelland in the 5th Aldermanic District.

Smith was elected to his 10th term as mayor.

Prior to being elected mayor, he served on the council, beginning in December 1996 until he was first elected mayor in April 2002.

Herter elected mayor

Challenger Mark Herter defeated incumbent Gary Henke 755-473 in the April 7 race for mayor of New London.

In the race for New London city council, Ald. Fred Zaug retained the District 2 seat against Tammy Schoonover 202-97.

In District 4, challenger David Dorsey garnered 212 votes against incumbent Ron Steinhorst, who received 145.

Council members John Faucher and Dennis Herter ran unopposed.

New London school board election

Incumbent School Board member John Heideman will retain his seat on the New London School Board following the April 7 election.

Four candidates ran for two available seats on the board.

Heideman received the most votes with 1,838.

Chris Martinson had the second highest number of votes receiving 1,776.

John Michels received 1,295 votes and Ben Wickersheim had 1,129 votes.

Heideman and Martinson campaigned together throughout the race leading up to the election.

Heideman said he was grateful Monday April 13, following the release of the results.

“I ran for school board alongside my good friend Chris Martinson and I am encouraged by the substantial support we have received from the voters and tax payers of the district. God Bless and Go Bulldogs,” Heideman wrote in a response to the Press Star request for comment.

Chris Martinson shared a similar note of thanks.

“Thanks to all the people who supported and encouraged John Heideman and I in the New London School Board election,” Martinson wrote.

“I do pledge to uphold the issues that we ran on: Transparency in decision-making, fiscally conservative tax and budget policy, and strengthening our emphasis on vocational education and the trades.”

Mukwa favors ATVs

Voters in the Town of Mukwa were asked to share their opinions in a separate advisory question off the ballot during the April 7 election.

Residents were asked, “Are you in favor of allowing ATV/UTV use on the town’s roads?”

Results were in favor of allowing ATV/UTV use on roads. Four-hundred seventy six residents said yes, 348 said no, while 44 said they had no opinion.

Town board members will use the information to help gauge public opinion as they review other data points in future decision making on ATV/UTV road use.

Clintonville results

Richard Beggs was re-elected mayor on April 7.

He defeated Laurie Vollrath 550-422 votes.

Mike Hankins defeated Lois Bressette 122-85 for the District 4 council seat.

Incumbents win in Weyauwega

Richard Luedke, Shani Appleby and Bruce Goetsch were all re-elected to the Weyauwega Common Council in the April 7 election.

Luedke received 115 votes for the Ward 1 seat, Appleby received 91 votes for the Ward 2 seat and Goetsch received 82 votes for the Ward 3 seat.

The three incumbents were all unopposed in the election.

Appleby was elected to her fourth term on the common council.

Both Luedke and Goetsch were elected to their third terms on the council.

Terms on the common council are for two years.

Incumbents re-elected in Fremont

Jim Falke, Scott Hart and Steve Van Lyssel all won another term on the Fremont Village Board in the April 7 election.

Van Lyssel received 154 votes, Falke received 147 votes and Hart received 122 votes.

In addition, Kathy Smith received 94 votes in spite of her decision to drop out of the village trustee race.

While she did so prior to the election, her name still appeared on the ballot.

Three village trustee seats were open on the board this spring.

Both Falke and Van Lyssel were elected to their fifth terms on the village board.

Hart was elected to his second term on the board.

The term for trustee seats is two years.

I-S School Board, village boards

Jack Kirmse and Laura Krogwold won seats on the Iola-Scandinavia School Board with 1,171 and 1,153 votes, respectively.

Meanwhile, five incumbents retained their seats on the Iola and Scandinavia village boards.

David Harper had 243 votes, while Terry Murphy had 225 and Missy Fenn had 220 in Iola; and Kelton Wilhite and Michael Hayes also kept their seat on the Scandinavia Village Board with 91 and 80 votes, respectively.

Manawa School Board race

Incumbent Bobbi Jo Pethke was re-elected to the Zone 3 seat on the Manawa School Board
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She defeated defeated Stephanie Riske 528-484.

There were no candidates for the school board’s Zone 4.

Hortonville election results

Three Hortonville village board trustees will retain their seats on the village board following the April 7 election.

Incumbent trustee Julie Arendt Vanden Heuvel retained her seat with 411 total votes.

Pat Lund Moe retained her seat with 349 votes.

Shauna Strelow will serve a second term on the village board with 341 votes.

Challenger Gerry Flunker received 255 votes.

Former Village Board President and challenger Al Habeck also received 255 votes