Election results from the three elections held this past Tuesday, Aug. 9, ended with New Ulm area farmer Brad Finstad being elected to fill the term of the late Congressman Jim Hagedorn, for the next five months, and the Faribault County Commissioner District No. 4 race being narrowed to Tom Loveall and Dana J. Gates.

Here are the results of all the Aug. 9 elections.

Special Election for U.S. Representative District 1 to fill vacancy in the term expiring Jan. 3, 2023

There were four names on this ballot, and Republican Party candidate Brad Finstad won the contest in a fairly narrow vote.

Finstad had 59,797 votes in the First Congressional District, which encompasses 21 counties.

DFL Party candidate Jeff Ettinger ended up with 55,053 votes.

The two will face off again in the Nov. 8 General Election ballot for the full two year term congressional seat.

Two other candidates were on the ballot last Tuesday, Richard B. Reisdorf of the Legal Marijuana Now Party who received 1,534 votes and Haroun McClellan of the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party who had 865 votes. There were also 535 write-in votes.

Faribault County also went with Finstad as the choice to fill out Hagedorn’s term. Finstad had 1,455 votes in the county, with Ettinger receiving 718.

Reisdorf had 19 votes in Faribault County and McClellan had 13. There were 30 write in votes cast.

(The county results were unofficial at the time this was written.)

State and County Non-Partisan Primary Ballot

The only Faribault County race last Tuesday was the primary election for County Commissioner District 4.

Three persons filed to run for the position and the field was to be narrowed down to two to face off in the General Election on Nov. 8.

Incumbent Tom Loveall received 304 votes, or 58 percent of the total. Dana Gates received 126 votes, or 24 percent. The two will now both be on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The third person on the primary ballot was Dru Martin, who tallied 94 votes, or 18 percent of the total.

State Partisan Primary Election Ballot

In the Minnesota First Congressional race to see who will be on the Nov. 8 ballot, Finstad and Ettinger both won fairly handily.

Republican Party voters selected Brad Finstad with 48,257 votes (76 percent) to Jeremy Munson’s 15,207 votes (24 percent).

DFL Party voters selected Jeff Ettinger over two other choices with 51,393 votes (92 percent). James Rainwater had 3,119 votes and George H. Kalberer had 1,266.

Faribault County had similar tallies with local Republican voters casting 1,026 votes for Finstad and 478 for Munson, and 674 Democrat voters going with Ettinger, 33 for Rainwater and 20 for Kalberer.

In State Senate District 23, (which includes part of Faribault County) incumbent Republican Party candidate Gene Dornink fended off a challenge from Lisa Hanson.

Dornink had 5,874 votes (71.49 percent) and Hanson had 2,342 votes (28.51 percent).

It was much closer in Faribault County where 392 persons cast votes for Dornink and 338 for Hanson.

All of the persons running for party endorsement for state offices on the primary election ballot who were expected to win, did.

Scott Jensen and Matt Birk received the nod to run for governor and lieutenant governor for the Republicans with 89 percent of the vote, while incumbents Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan got the DFL nod with 97 percent of the vote.

DFL incumbent Secretary of State Steve Simon had 72 percent of the vote and GOP candidate Kim Crockett had 63 percent of the Republican’s votes.

For Attorney General, incumbent Democrat Keith Ellison had 89 percent of the DFL vote and Republican Jim Schultz had 52 percent of the GOP vote statewide.