Paul Wildman will represent District 5 on the Pope County Board of Commissioners defeating Bruce Harvey 650 votes to Harvey’s 474, according to the unofficial Pope County results from Tuesday’s general election.

Wildman and Harvey were vying for the board seat vacated by Cody Rogahn, who was defeated in a three-way race in the primary election.  Paul Gremmels, who ran unopposed for the Pope County Commissioner seat in District 1, was elected with 98.56% of the vote, receiving 956 votes; and incumbent Larry Lindor, also running unopposed for the District 4 Pope County Commissioner seat was elected with 98.39% of the vote with 917 votes. Gremmels was running for the seat vacated by Nan Haggerty, who decided not to run for reelection.

The other local race was for four seats on the Minnewaska Area School Board. There were six candidates vying for three seats on the school board.  The three elected with the most votes were incumbent Ted Reichmann with 2,731 votes, Amanda Ogdahl with 2,312 votes, and Incumbent Zach Lagred with 1,961 votes.

In the special election for Minnewaska School Board, Justin Zavadil defeated Lisa Martin with Zavadil receiving 2,951 votes and Martin receiving 1,324 votes.

Incumbent Rep. Paul Anderson (R) was a decisive winner in District 12A, defeating DFL challenger Edi Barrett 3,470 votes in Pope County to Barrett’s 1,356 county votes.  Anderson was declared the overall winner in the district and will serve District 12A as the state representative.

Incumbent State Sen. Torrey Westrom was also a big winner in Pope County and overall in Senate District 12 defeating DFL challenger Kari Dorry and Ashley Klingbeil in a three-way race for that state senate seat. Westrom garnered 66.04% of the Pope County vote.

A complete rundown on the election results in Pope County will be featured in the Nov. 14 issue of the Pope County Tribune & Starbuck Times.