(Spirit Lake)– Dickinson county residents for the first time ever Tuesday elected five people to the board of supervisors.
In district one, Wayne Northey defeated Pete Hodge 944 to 420; Marty Allen won the district two seat…defeating Mike Koppert and Chris Hanson. Allen received 808 votes compared to Koppert with 351 and Hanson with 142. In district three, David Gottsche held off challenger Charles Gilbert. Gottsche received 752 votes compared to Gilbert’s 484. In the fourth district Paul Johnson defeated Mike Wittrock, 1,009 to 497. And in the fifth district, Pam Jordan was the winner in a four-way race. She received 584 votes while the next highest vote-getter, Spirit Lake city council member and businessman Pat McNorton had 276.
The major upset in the evening came in the race for Dickinson County Attorney. Republican challenger Rosalise Olson handily defeated Democratic incumbent Ned Bjornstad, 3,708 to 2,904. Olson told KUOO news one of her first priorities after taking office will be to move the County Attorney’s office to the former Farm Bureau building which the county owns just west of the courthouse. The amount of rent the county is paying on the current building housing the County Attorney office became an issue in days leading up to Tuesday’s election.
