County office candidate filing period opens Monday

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

The next period to file to run as a candidate in the Nov. 3 general election opens up next week.

Persons interested in running for county offices can begin filing their nomination papers on Monday, March 2. The deadline for turning in nomination papers is either March 20 or March 25, depending on whether candidates are running for an office as part of the political party primary system.

Floyd County offices open this year are one Board of Supervisors position, county sheriff and county auditor, as well as seven members of the Floyd County Medical Center Board of Trustees.

Persons running for supervisor, sheriff or auditor who are running as a Democrat or a Republican and who will be part of their party primary election, need to turn in their nomination papers to the county auditor’s office by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25.

Persons who are running for one of those three offices as no party, nominated by petition, as well as the nonpartisan offices of hospital board, township officials and soil and water conservation board, need to get their nomination papers in to the auditor’s office by 5 p.m. Friday, March 20.

Nominations for state offices have been open for a week now, and nomination papers must be returned to the Iowa Secretary of State Office by 5 p.m. Friday, March 13.

As of Thursday evening, Waylon Brown had filed to run for re-election in Iowa Senate District 26, which includes Floyd, Chickasaw, Howard, Mitchell and Worth counties and part of Cerro Gordo and Winneshiek counties.

The St. Ansgar Republican is seeking his second four-year term in office.

No Democrat or other challenger had yet filed to run for the District 26 Iowa Senate seat as of Thursday evening.
In Iowa House District 52, which includes Floyd and Chickasaw counties and part of Cerro Gordo County, no one had yet filed to run as of Thursday evening.

Todd Prichard, a Charles City Democrat, is the incumbent in House District 52, having first won the seat in a special election in 2013 to replace Rep. Brian Quirk, a New Hampton Democrat who resigned.

Prichard was re-elected in 2014, 2016 and 2018. In the 2018 election he ran unopposed. Prichard was named House minority leader last year.