Unofficial area school board election tallies released
WILLMAR -- The results of area school board elections, with unofficial results from the Minnesota Secretary of State's Web site, including these contested races:
BBE
Three candidates, including newcomers Paul Weller and Dave Cebulla and incumbent Danny Wold, were elected to the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa School Board.
Paul Weller -- 1,406
Dave Cebulla -- 961
Danny Wold (I) -- 942
Ginny Borgerding (I) -- 912
Rollie Imdieke (I) -- 716
BOLD
Four candidates, including incumbents Jeffery Benson, Neal Prokosch and Paul "Woody" Leindecker and newcomer John Desotell, were elected to the BOLD School Board.
Neal Prokosch (I) -- 1,881
John Desotell -- 1,803
Jeffery Benson (I) -- 1,578
Paul "Woody" Leindecker (I) -- 1,426
Matt Holland -- 1,067
Kenneth Ziesmer -- 989
Litchfield
Three incumbents, Karla Rick, Stacey Helstrom and Brian Park, were re-elected to the Litchfield School Board.
Karla Rick (I) -- 3,781
Stacey Helstrom (I) -- 3,323
Brian Park (I) -- 2,973
John W. Mueller -- 2,543
Minnewaska Area
Two incumbents, Heidi Roggenkamp and Julie Gaffaney, along with two newcomers, Lonnie Hoffman and Jim Peters, were elected to the Minnewaska Area School Board.
Lonnie Hoffman -- 2,984
Julie Gaffaney (I) -- 2,541
Heidi Roggenkamp (I) -- 2,461
Jim Peters -- 2,293
Brad Parsons (I) -- 2,272
Dion Harste (I) -- 2,241
Judd Kuehne -- 1,206
Paynesville Area
Incumbent Gretchen O'Fallon and newcomers Bob Bowden and Dave Currens were elected to serve on the Paynesville Area School Board.
Bob Bowden -- 2,078
Gretchen O'Fallon (I) -- 2,063
Dave Currens -- 1,375
Edward Gottwald -- 1,328
Renville County West
Newcomers Jeremy Hebrink, Mark Molenaar and Ann Johnson, along with incumbent David Hamre, were elected to file four positions on the Renville County West School Board.
Jeremy Hebrink -- 1,289
Mark Molenaar -- 1,134
Ann Johnson -- 1,113
David Hamre (I) -- 1,097
Dave Zaske -- 1,078
Marci Robertson -- 921
Area school board election results that included uncontested races include:
ACGC
Three individuals were elected to serve four-year terms on the Atwater-Grove City-Cosmos School Board.
Joel Gratz (I) -- 2,216
Judy Raske (I) -- 2,036
Jeanna Lilleberg -- 2,027
In a special election, Dale Hoerchler was elected to fill a two-year term. He ran unopposed and received 2,571 votes.
Benson
Four incumbents were re-elected to serve on the Benson School Board.
Bill McGeary -- 2,438
Jeff Guest -- 2,436
Alan D. Pagel -- 2,365
Dennis McManus -- 2,284
KMS
Four individuals, two incumbents and two newcomers, were elected to the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg School Board.
Eric Tollefson (I) -- 1,247
Mike Lindquist (I) -- 1,233
Steven Collins -- 1,181
Neil Miller -- 1,043
Lac qui Parle Valley
Three individuals, including one incumbent, were elected to serve on the Lac qui Parle Valley School Board. Jon Olson and incumbent Kimberly Mitchell were elected to four-year terms and Robert D. Tostenson was elected to serve the last two years of an unexpired four-year term.
Jon Olson -- 530
Kimberly Mitchell (I) -- 520
Robert Tostenson -- 513
MACCRAY
Three individuals were elected to serve on the MACCRAY School Board. Each was elected from an individual district.
Rita Cannon-Wolf -- 179
Jay Maurice -- 564
Tim Smith (I) -- 293
Montevideo
One incumbent and two newcomers were elected to the Montevideo School Board.
Betty Christensen (I) -- 2,892
Darin Balken -- 2,426
Maggie Kluver -- 2,264
Yellow Medicine East
Four candidates, including write-in candidate Steven Zumhofe, were elected to serve four-year terms on the Yellow Medicine East School Board, according to results from the school's superintendent's office. Another write-in candidate received more than 200 votes but was not elected.
Tim Opdahl -- 2,588
Jane Hagert -- 2,037
Larry Lee -- 1,721
Steven Zumhofe -- 682
Tanya McCoss-Yerigan -- 275
Grant Velde, who was appointed to fill a vacant seat, was elected to serve the remaining two-years of that term.
Grant Velde -- 3,255
(I) denotes incumbents
