Unofficial results of contested Washington County races last week. (i) — denotes incumbent.
Washington County election results
County Board
District 2
Ted Bearth (i) 8,304, Jeremy Olson 4,917
District 4
Karla Bigham 9,166, Autumn Lehrke (i) 5,708
Cities/Townships
Afton
Mayor: Richard Bend (i) 950, Bill Whalen 435. Council Ward 3: Stan Ross 195, Peg Nolz (i) 174
Bayport: Two City Council seats — Michele Hanson (i) 551, Patrick McGann (i) 425, Brian Delisle 296
Cottage Grove
Two City Council seats: Steve Dennis 5,274, Dave Thiede (i) 4,703, Derrick Lehrke (i) 2,733, Sara Hyland 2,543, Matt Erickson 2,376, Tasha Steinmetz 1,459
Denmark Township
One Township Board seat: Kathy Higgins (i) 363, Steve Kramer 317
Forest Lake
Mayor: Stev Stegner 4,845, Brian David Hile 1,224. Two four-year, at-large City Council seats: Michael Freer (i) 3,693, Ed Eigner 3,292, Susan Young (i) 2,656. Two-year City Council seat: Richard Weber 3,126, Michael Kuehn 2,199
Grant
Two City Council seats: Loren Sederstrom 1,041, Larry Lanoux 929, David Tronrud (i) 912, Gary Baumann 826, Bruce Behymer 233
Lake Elmo
Two City Council seats: Julie Fliflet 1,834, Jill Lundgren 1,751, Wally Nelson (i) 1,583, Michael Reeves (i) 1,320
Lake St. Croix Beach
Mayor: Tom McCarthy (i) 380, Jim Unker 91. Two City Council seats: Michelle Kline 276, Cindie J. Reiter (i) 220, Reneé Godbout 207, Mildred J. Brown (i) 94
Lakeland
Mayor: Amy Williams 507, Asia Bednar 305. Two City Council seats: Richard Glasgow (i) 497, Joe Paiement (i) 388, Peter Decorsey 352, William Francel 149.
Landfall
Three City Council seats: Lori Lengsfeld (i) 96, Sarah "Sally" Eral (i) 87, Ronald J. Sanoski Sr. (i) 76, Don Dunn 64, Lynette Elsola 28, Greg "Flash" Feldbrugge 38, Donald Swiger 37, Mary Mars 36, Carol Jean McMonigal 12, Matthew R. Blaylock 9
Marine on St. Croix
Mayor: Glenn T. Mills (i) 371, Mihcala MacIntoisch 49. Two City Council seats: Dan Willenbring (i) 231, Chris Mowery (i) 181, Bill Miller 179, Gwen Roden 169.
Newport
Two City Council seats: Tracy Rahm (i) 587, Dan Lund 514, Paul Hansen 400
Oak Park Heights
Two City Council seats: Mark R. Swenson (i) 880, Michael (Mike) Liljegren (i) 860, David A. Beaudet 822
Oakdale
Mayor: Stan Karwoski 4,197, Paul Reinke 2,877, Marty Jurgensen 1,337. Two City Council seats: Lori Pulkrabek (i) 5,124, Bill N. Rasmussen 2,810, Kristen Cici 2,398, Mark S. Landis 1,637, Peter Wetzels 1,299, Jon Mast Jr. 782.
Scandia
Mayor: Randall F. Simonson (i) 695, Sally J. Swanson 682, Dan Lee 448. Two City Council seats: Jim Schneider (i) 887, Bob Hegland 541, Michael White 524, Robert Pilz 340, Dustin Hegland, 303, Darrin Gould (i) 302
Stillwater
Mayor: Ted Kozlowski 4,642, John Rheinberger 2,770. City Council Ward 1: Doug Menikheim (i) 823, Ryan Collins 757
Stillwater Township
One Township Board seat: David W. Johnson (i) 639, Ben Prchal 367
Woodbury
Two City Council seats: Julie Ohs (i) 11,599, Christopher Burns (i) 9,455, Bill Braun 6,942, Emmanuel Obikwelu 3,490.
School boards
Forest Lake
Three seats: Karen Morehead (i) 7,942, Luke Odegaard 7,967, Jill Olson 7,967, Jerry Wellman 4,821
Mahtomedi
One two-year seat: Lucy Payne (i) 2,910, Julio Fesser 2,456. Referendum: Yes 3,755, No 3,466
North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale
Three seats: Amy Coborn (i) 14,151, Michelle Yener (i) 10,028 Caleb Anderson 8,003, Danny Porter 7,878, Bennie Bennett 5,610
Stillwater
Four seats: Tom Lehmann (i) 11,340, George Hoeppner (i) 9,556, Shelley Pearson 9,480, Paula O'Loughlin 8,997, Fred Anderson 6,023, Donald Hovlund 5,500, Paul "Woody" Leindecker 5,429, Aly Xiong 5,055.
State Legislature
There are no state Senate seats in contention this year, but voters will be electing new legislators to the House of Representatives.
38A: Linda Runbeck (i) (R) 9,212, Jim Davern (DFL) 5,585
38B: Matt Dean (i) (R) 9,530, Greg M. Pariseau (DFL) 7,444
39A: Bob Dettmer (i) (R) 9,730, Tim Stender (DFL) 7,028
39B: Kathy Lohmer (i) (R) 9,531, Tom DeGree (DFL) 7,927
43A: Peter Fischer (i) (DFL) 8,301, Stacey Stout (R) 8,054
43B: Leon Lillie (i) (DFL) 7,891, Justice B. Whitethorn (R) 5,672
53A: JoAnn Ward (i) (DFL) 8,420, Lukas Czech (R) 5,983
53B: Kelly Fenton (R) 8,634, Kay Hendrikson (DFL) 6,515
54A: Dan Schoen (i) DFL 7,047, Matthew Kowalski (R) 5,629
54B: Denny McNamara (i) (R) 8,852, Donald Slaten (DFL) 5,750
judge
10th District: Susan Miles (i) 127,866, Julie LeFleur 101,971
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