Our 2018 Election

Thanks to all who voted for the Democratic Party candidates on Pocahontas county ballots in 2018.  We supported an excellent slate from Fred Hubbell on down.

Democrats Mike Bollard and Brent Aden won the only two contested races within the county.  Bollard defeated a challenger and won another term as county recorder.  Aden defeated an incumbent to become a county supervisor.  He joins Democrats Ed Dewey and Jeff Ives, thus constituting a majority of the board of supervisors.

More votes were cast this year than four years ago.  Most of the new votes went to Democrats.  Four years ago the Democrat got 736 votes for Governor here.  This year an extra 257 voters appeared.  The Democrat got 225 more votes, reaching 961.

Our odious, nationally reviled Congressman saw his vote total slip nine points in Pocahontas County as some voters preferred the excellent J.D. Scholten. 

But Republicans won most statewide races and control the legislature completely.  Public schools and IPERS will remain under threat.  Republicans in other states have tried to pack the courts and gerrymander their legislatures.  That could happen here, too. 

Nationally the GOP march toward authoritarianism has met a roadblock in the new House of Representatives.  We wish them luck and are pleased that our neighbors in SW Iowa and NE Iowa sent new people to Congress to help out.