Election Results in Central South Dakota

There were several local city and school board elections Tuesday in our coverage area.

For the City of Colome, running for mayor were incumbent Brad Hill and David Witt. Brad Hill defeated David Witt 44 votes to 26 votes.

Tara Beckers and Casey Harter ran for a city council position for Ward 2.  In a very close election, Tara Beckers defeated Casey Harter 14 votes to 13 votes.

Kelly Leighton, Kelly Dougherty, and Victor Senter ran for a city council position for Ward 3.  Kelly Leighton won the position with 28 votes to Kelly Dougherty’s 21 votes and Victor Senter’s 8 votes.

For the City of Winner, Roger Farley and Joe Hockett were running for a city council position for Ward 2.  Joe Hockett defeated Roger Farley 89 to 77 votes.

For the Winner School Board, Julie Manke (incumbent), Scott Meiners (incumbent), Jon Barfuss, Corey Audiss, and Lynnelle Anderson ran for three open positions on the board.  Julie Manke, Scott Meiners, and Lynnelle Anderson won the three school board positions with 287, 252, and 246 votes respectively.

For the City of Gregory, running for Ward 2 were the late Seymour Studenberg, Darwin Grim, and Butch Rolf. Darwin Grim won the position with 34 votes over the late Seymour Studenberg and Butch Rolf who both had 25 and 15 votes respectively.

For the Platte-Geddes School Board, Tom Olsen, Dennis DeBoer (incumbent), Roxi Summerville (incumbent) , and Heather VanDerWerff (incumbent) were running for three open positions.  Dennis DeBoer, Roxi Summerville and Tom Olsen won the three board positions with 216, 216, and 179 votes respectively.