Preliminary tallies from Waupaca County clerk
While voters statewide elected Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a margin of 55.5% to 44.5%, in Waupaca County Dan Kelly received 8,982 (59.6%) votes to Protasiewicz’s 6,095 (40.4%).
Dane County Judge Chris Taylor ran unopposed for Court of Appeals District 4 in Tuesday’s election. She received 11,462 votes in Waupaca County.
Waupaca County Circuit Court Judge Troy Nielsen was unopposed in his bid for re-election. He garnered 11,715 votes.
Two write-in candidates ran for judge of the Joint Northern Waupaca County Municipal Court. Deborah C. Bendt was elected with 72 votes, while John D. Smith received 65 votes.
Municipal elections
In the contested race for Weyauwega mayor, Richard Luedke garnered 250 votes and Keith Najdowski got 121.
For Weyauwega Common Council, Chris Gunderson was elected to the District 2 seat with 98 votes.
There were no candidates on the ballots for Districts 1 and 3.
According to Weyauwega’s city clerk the two write-in candidates who received an equal number of votes were registered in each district. The clerk will contact the write-in candidates to confirm they are interested in the office. To break the tie, a drawing will be held later this week.
There were no contested races for city council in Waupaca, New London, Clintonville and Manawa.
In Dayton, Jeff Barlow was elected town chair. Barlow received 720 votes against Fred Silloway with 341.
Barlow and Jim Peglow were both elected to the Dayton Town Board, with 598 and 510 votes respectively. Candidates John Miller received 378 and Daniel Johnson 333 votes.
In Farmington, Carolyn Murphy was re-elected as town chair with 586 votes against challenger Kevin Will with 576.
In Iola, four candidates ran for three seats on the village board. Rick Meyers received 195 votes, James Rasmussen and Shannon Dane each garnered 187 votes, and Aaron Messier drew 133 votes.
In Lind, Kathy Nickel was elected town chair with 273 votes against Nathan Gall’s 81 votes.
Zoey Nelson was elected town supervisor with 201 votes against Nathan Gall’s 150 votes.
Faye Neumann was elected Lind town clerk with 235 votes against Dawn Hardy-Reith’s 101.
Three candidates vied for two seats on the Weyauwega Town Board. Terry Wilz received 139 votes, John Neuman 104 and Gordon Vong 29.
School board elections
Three candidates ran for two seats in the Clintonville School Board. Glen Drew Lund received 1.037 votes, Jason Moder 947 and Kris Strauman 774.
In the Iola-Scandinavia School Board election, no candidate registered for the seat that represents the village of Scandinavia, The county clerk reports a scattering of 47 votes.
In the Manawa School Board election, no candidate registered for the Zone 5 seat that represents Royalton and Mukwa. A scattering of 47 votes were reported.
For the Weyauwega-Fremont School Board, no candidate registered for the seat representing the town of Fremont. There was a scattering of 69 votes.
In the New London School District, four candidates ran for two seats. John Heideman and Chris Martinson were elected with 2,116 and 2,001 votes respectively, against 1,994 for Cathy Zaddack and 1,852 votes for Pete Bosquez.
The Waupaca School Board election was uncontested. Lori Chesnut, Bob Adams and Molly McDonald were elected.
Referendums
Two referendums related to conditions of release while a criminal case is pending and cash bonds were on the ballot. Both measure passed by significant margins at both the state and county level.
Another referendum that requires able-bodied, childless adults to work while receiving welfare benefits also passed at both the state and county level.
Correction: An earlier posting of this story annouinced the wrong winers in the New London School Board election. It only included vote tallies from Waupaca County and not from other parts of the school district.