Daniels County Residents Decide On Ballot Issues
Daniels County residents voted on three local ballot issues during the election held on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Regarding if county officials should be partisan or non-partisan. Voters went for partisan elections by a 387-370 margin.
The issue to retain the existing elected county officials form of government for Daniels County received 464 votes while the adoption of the commission form of government proposed by the Daniels County study commission failed with 278 votes.
Changing to an at-large city council election passed by a 237 to 160 margin.
In the county treasurer race, independent Katie Leibrand received 493 votes compared to Republican Julia Laurie’s 310 votes.
Jerod Nieskens won the justice of the peace position with 469 votes compared to Bobbi Jo Anderson’s 337 votes.
Running unopposed were commissioner Michel Thievin, clerk and recorder Kristy Jones, sheriff/ coroner Clint Lowe, county attorney Logan Olson and public administrator J. Perry Wolfe.
Turnout in Daniels County was 825 voters or 71 percent.
Daniels County voters supported Republican Valerie Moore with 696 votes in the House District 29 race. Overall, Moore won with 79 percent of the vote in the house district.
Daniels County voters went with Republican Kurt Alme with 593 votes in the U.S. Senate race while independent Seth Bodnar had 141 votes, Democrat Alani Bankhead garnered 49 votes and Libertarian Kyle Austin received 24 votes. Statewide, Alme won the election with 49 percent of the vote compared to Bodnar’s 37 percent and Bankhead’s 12 percent.
Republican U.S. Rep. Troy Downing received 656 votes compared to Democrat Brian Miller’s 109 votes in Daniels County. Statewide, Downing attracted 58 percent of the vote.
Daniels County residents opposed all three constitutional initiatives on the ballot, but all three passed statewide.
