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Runoff election to be held in Glenwood Dec. 1st

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November 11th, 2015 by Ric Hanson

As baseball great Yogi Berra said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”  So it goes in Glenwood, where a runoff election will be held for three city positions, including the mayor. The Daily NonPareil reports the results of the Nov. 3rd election for mayor, an at-large council seat and the Ward 2 council seat did not meet the threshold of 50-percent plus one, as required by ordinance, in Glenwood.

Each of the races featured three candidates. The top two finishers from the general election will compete in a special election scheduled for Dec. 1st. In the Nov. 3 general election, Brian Tackett received 37.93 percent of the vote for mayor, finishing ahead of Jessie Lundvall, who received 31.41 percent. Darcey Butts finished third with 30.22 percent. In Ward 2, incumbent Craig Florian received 41.43 percent, Laura Kuhl 32.86 percent and Todd Haggstrom 25.71 percent. For an at-large seat, Dan McComb finished with 43.85 percent of the vote, compared to 39.43 percent for Ryan Roenfeld. Joe Sainto finished third with 15.93 percent.

Jeremy Wade Rodman, who collected 94.78 percent of the vote running unopposed in Ward 1 in the city’s only other municipal contest, is not subject to the runoff.