Voters pick Mack as Democratic supervisor candidate, Thomson for GOP Iowa House 58 run

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

In two of the very few actual contests to be decided in Tuesday’s political party primary election, area voters selected Josh Mack as the Democratic nominee to run for the new Floyd County Supervisor District 2 seat, and Charley Thomson as the Republican nominee to run for the new Iowa House District 58 seat that will represent most of Floyd County.

Both men are Charles City residents and will be running for districts that have been newly created — the supervisor seat because of a decision voters made last year to divide the county into three supervisor districts, and the Iowa House seat because of redistricting following the 2020 Census.

Both candidates tallied decisive victories.

Mack, who is also a member of the Charles City Board of Education, defeated Stewart Dalton by a vote of 112 to 66, a 62.2% majority, in the two precincts that make up Supervisor District 2 – Charles City Precinct 2 and Charles City Precinct 3/North St. Charles Township.

Mack will face Republican Dennis Keifer of Charles City in the general election Nov. 8. Keifer, running unopposed for the Republican nomination, received 250 votes.

In the Iowa House District 58 Republican primary, Thomson faced two other opponents but still came away with more than half the votes.

Thomson received 1,140 votes, or 55.2%, while Jim Wright of Sumner received 616 votes (29.8%) and Sean Galleger of Fairbank received 309 (15.0%).

House District 58 includes all of Floyd County except for Rock Grove and Rockford townships on the western edge of the county, all of Chickasaw County and all of Bremer County except for four townships in the western part of the county.

The was no Democratic candidate running for District 58 in the primary election.

In the primary race for Iowa House District 60, which includes Rock Grove and Rockford townships in Floyd County as well as all of Mitchell and Worth counties and the western six townships of Cerro Gordo County, which includes Clear Lake but does not include Mason City, Jane Bloomingdale of Northwood defeated Deb Hild of Clear Lake for the Republican nomination.

The vote was 1,592 (54.4%) for Bloomingdale and 1,335 (45.6%) for Hild.

Bloomingdale is currently a member of the Iowa House, having represented what was Iowa House District 51.

There was no Democratic candidate for Iowa House District 60.

In the primary for Iowa Senate District 29, which includes all of Floyd County except for Rock Grove and Rockford townships, and all of Chickasaw, Butler and Bremer counties, Sandy Salmon of Janesville won the Republican nomination running unopposed, and there were no Democratic primary candidates.

In the Primary for Iowa Senate District 30, which includes Rock Grove and Rockford townships in Floyd County and all of Mitchell, Worth and Cerro Gordo counties, incumbent Waylon Brown of Osage won the Republican nomination unopposed and Whitney Mixdorf of Clear Lake won the Democratic nomination running unopposed.

Before redistricting, Brown represented Iowa Senate District 26, which included all of Floyd County.