BROOKINGS – Three incumbents and one former lawmaker claimed victory Tuesday in local Republican primary elections.
Commissioners Ryan Krogman and Mike Bartley won the Republican primary for Brookings County Commission, while incumbent Rep. Tim Reed and former state senator and representative Larry Tidemann came out on top in the Republican primary for District 7 House.
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BROOKINGS – Three incumbents and one former lawmaker claimed victory Tuesday in local Republican primary elections.
Commissioners Ryan Krogman and Mike Bartley won the Republican primary for Brookings County Commission, while incumbent Rep. Tim Reed and former state senator and representative Larry Tidemann came out on top in the Republican primary for District 7 House.
In the Brookings County Commission race, Krogman was the top vote-getter with 1,877 (47%), followed by Mike Bartley at 1,316 (33%). Newcomer Shawn Hostler came in third with 789 votes (20%).
Krogman and Bartley move on to the November general election, facing independent candidate Tim Bauer of Elkton in a three-way race for two, four-year seats on the commission.
In the District 7 House race, Reed was in first with 1,205 votes (41%), followed by Tidemann at 977 (33%). Incumbent Rep. Doug Post came in third with 764 votes (26%).
Reed and Tidemann move on to the November general election to face Democratic candidates Bill Adamson and Louise Snodgrass, competing for two, two-year District 7 seats in the state House of Representatives.
Brookings County voters followed statewide trends in the primary race for the Democratic nominee for president and in selecting Republican candidates for U.S. senator and U.S. representative.
Ballots cast in favor of Joe Biden for the presidential nomination were well ahead of Bernie Sanders. In Brookings County, 1,395 (75%) voted for Biden, and 456 (25%) chose Sanders.
Brookings County Republicans chose U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds with 1,957 votes (78%), and 536 votes (22%) were cast in favor of Scyller Borglum. They also selected Rep. Dusty Johnson with 2,066 votes (83%) over Liz Marty May, who had 412 votes (17%).
Final statewide tallies in those three races were not available by press time Tuesday night, but Biden, Rounds and Johnson were the presumptive primary winners with a majority of precincts reporting.
In Brookings County’s Precinct 5, Republican Pat Powers claimed 220 votes (64%) over Republican Leon Pesall’s 125 votes (36%) in a race for precinct committeeman.
Voter turnout in Brookings County Tuesday came to 24.3%, with 4,490 ballots cast out of 18,479 registered voters.
