It was a good night for Republicans in Indiana, as Mike Braun was elected the next Governor for the State. Braun received about 59 percent of the vote to Jennifer McCormick’s 37 percent. Republican U.S. Senator Jim Banks easily defeated Democrat Valerie McCray and Libertarian Andrew Horning. And we will have a new 8th District Congressman, as Mark Messmer handily won over his Democrat challenger Erik Holt. We caught up with Messmer after the race was decided last night…
The new Congressman went on to highlight some of his goals at the new office…
For State Representative in District 63, incumbent Shane Lindauer cruised to victory over his democratic challenger Teresa Kendall.
Locally in Daviess County, the Washington Community School Board will have a new member. Retired Washington School Teacher and Administrator Rob McCormick will join the incumbent Kyle Cornelius in the two at large seats. The two edged out a challenge from third candidate Ryan Dashner. Cornelius received 4056 votes, McCormick with 3692 votes, and Dashner got 2355 votes. McCormick told us he was excited to take this next step in life…
In the North Daviess School Board district 3 race, Incumbent Rob Dove held on to his seat after a challenge from Jared Smith. Dove received 1213 votes, Smith got 1017. Dove says he is excited to continue serving the students of the North Daviess Community on the board…
Daviess County will have two new County Commissioners beginning in January. Mike Keith ran unopposed to replace Michael Tayler who did not seek re-election. Keith told us last night, he is looking forward to seeing the Courthouse renovation through and working on many other projects with the county…
The other new Daviess County Commissioner will be Tracy T.C. Cook, who defeated incumbent Ron Arnold in the primary and ran unopposed last night as well. Cook says he is looking forward to developing a five-year plan for the county and putting it into motion…
In Martin County School Board races last night, Brooke Hawkins and Thomas TJ McAtee were unopposed for at large seats on the Loogootee School Board. In one contested Shoals School Board District 3 Race, Lorna Troutman topped Jerry Braun. Aaron “Moose” Summers was able to retain his seat as Martin County Commissioner in District 3 over challenger Jason McCoy. Summers received 2765 votes, to McCoy’s 1875 votes. After the win, Summers said he is excited to keep moving forward and serving Martin County…
In Dubois County, the three Republicans swept the County Council at large races last night. Sonya Haas, Mike Kluesner (kleez-ner), and Doug Uebelhor were winners over their democratic challengers, Matt Johnson, Daniel Kreilein (cry-line), and Adam Mann. For the at large school board seat in the Southeast Dubois School Board Race, Matt Luebbehusen cruised to a big win for the seat over two challengers, Brandy Nord and Roger Corley.
Voters in Pike County had the most races last night locally. In a District 1 County Commissioner’s race Republican Jeff Nelson defeated challenger Jay Boeglin with 78 percent of the vote. For County Council At-Large, the three Republicans swept the seats Jeff Harting, Eric Smith and Greg Willis. For Pike County School Board District 3 Chris McKinney defeated challenger Larry Haycraft with 61 percent of the vote, while in District 4, the incumbent Chris Satterfield retained the seat with 62 percent of the vote. And In the District 5 school board contest, Gary Willis will be on the board edging out Gabrielle Seger with 51 percent of the vote.
For the first time in modern history, no Democratic candidates were on the Knox County election ballot. There will be a new School board member at South Knox District C. The incumbent Michael Edwards lost to challenger John Carnahan. Carnahan received 71 percent of the vote to take over the seat at South Knox. In Vincennes, five candidates competed for three at-large school board seats. The incumbents Aaron Bauer, and Karla Smith retained their spots, but one challenger did gain a seat on the board as Kolby Kerzan won the third seat over the incumbent Barbara Toole.
A high voter turnout was reported across the board with well over 67 percent turnout in our local races and across the state.
