Allamakee County voters differ in their degrees of candidate support in comparison to some statewide and districtwide June 2 Primary results
Manning, Stone win Republican nomination for Supervisor in lone local contested race
Helping decide who will square off in the November General Election later this year, Allamakee County voters joined others statewide in casting their decisions in the Tuesday, June 2 Primary Election. Allamakee County Commissioner of Elections Denise Beyer reports that 19.54% of Allamakee County’s 9,638 registered voters took part in this year’s Primary Election, one of the higher percentages for a mid-term Primary Election in recent memory, with 15.35% of Allamakee County voters participating in 2022 and just 10.5% in the 2018 midterm Primary. Across the state of Iowa, 19.16% of registered voters cast a Primary ballot this year.
A further breakdown of those voting statistics shows that registered Republicans in Allamakee County cast their vote by more than a two-to-one margin over registered Democrats. A total of 1,304 Republican ballots were cast in this year’s Primary, vs. 579 by Democrats.
LONE CONTESTED LOCAL RACE
Although there were multiple county-level offices listed on this year’s Primary ballots, there was just one of those races that actually featured multiple candidates in a contested race. The Allamakee County Board of Supervisors has two of its three seats up for re-election this year, and the Republican ballot in this year’s Primary Election had three candidates - Joe Manning of Lansing, and Andrew Sires and Pat Stone of Waukon - vying to advance to the November General Election, with two of those candidates being eligible to do so since there are two seats up for election.
State of Iowa law requires candidates in party primaries to receive at least 35% of the votes cast in order to receive automatic nomination for the General Election, and if that threshold is not met, the winner is to be chosen at a nominating convention. In the Republican race for Allamakee County Supervisor, there were 2,067 votes cast but since there were two seats being voted on, that number is to be divided in half (ending up at 1033.5 votes cast) in order to determine the 35% threshold, which would mean a requirement of 362 votes needed by any of the candidates in order to be considered for automatic nomination, and thus, the race then boiling down to the top-two vote recipients in order to determine those nominations.
With all three of the candidates far surpassing that 362 vote requirement, it was Manning topping that three-candidate race with his 940 votes, with Stone also receiving automatic nomination with his vote total of 596 votes. Sires was just a bit shy of that second-place nomination total with his total of 526 votes, leaving Manning and Stone as the two Republican nominees on this year’s General Election ballot in November.
Those two will be squaring off against the lone candidate listed on the Democratic ballot in this year’s Primary Election, Jim Pladsen. He received 524 votes to earn the Democratic nomination, making for another three-candidate race for two seats on the Allamakee County Board of Supervisors in this year’s General Election in November.
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