Floyd County precincts nearly unanimous in election results

By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com

Floyd County voters went along with the rest of the state in picking the U.S. and Iowa winners in last week’s election, contributing to the red wave that dominated the state.

County precinct voters were fairly uniform in their selections as well, with only a couple of outliers.

In the Iowa House District 58, Floyd County precincts split, with three of the precincts in the district going for the district winner, Republican Charley Thomson, and three of the precincts going for Democrat Dené Lundberg, both residents of the county.

The three precincts going for Lundberg were the three Charles City precincts, with enough votes to carry the county for Lundberg, 53.7% to 46.1%.

Thomson steamrolled Lundberg in the other two counties that are part of District 58, however, capturing 70.7% of the votes in Bremer County and 64% of the votes in Chickasaw County, for a total of 7,367 to 5,086, or a 59.2% to 40.8% victory.

In the county supervisor race, the winners, Mark Kuhn in District 1, Dennis Keifer in District 2 and Jeff Hawbaker in District 3, won every one of the precincts in their districts, except in District 1, where Kuhn and Julius Bryant tied in the Scott, Union and Pleasant Grove townships precinct at 169 votes each.

The only other election where precincts across the county were not united was in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) levy public question.

There, the three Charles City precincts voted for the measure, while the rest of the county precincts voted against it.

Even the Charles City precincts failed to pass it by the required 60%, however, voting a combined 1,278 “yes” and 1,085 “no,” for a 54.1% approval rate.

Countywide the measure failed to get even 50% of the vote, failing 2,622 “yes” to 2,813 “no.”

In the firearms amendment question, Floyd County voters gave much stronger support than the state as a whole, passing it by an almost 76% margin, as opposed to the 65.2% margin of victory across Iowa.