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Page County officials conclude canvass of local election returns; multiple small-town races uncontested
Summary
Page County canvassed city, school and community college returns and read write-ins and undervote counts; staff announced winners for several small jurisdictions. The board concluded the official canvass and moved on to regular business.
Page County officials convened an official canvass of city, school and community college election returns and read precinct-by-precinct totals before concluding the process.
The board’s reading team and staff verified printed totals across multiple precincts in Page County, including Shenandoah, Clarinda, Essex, Stanton and several smaller towns. Results included mayoral and council tallies, school board contests, and community-college public-measure returns. In several small races the reported counts were zero or consisted of write-ins; the chair read winners produced by write-in tallies (for example, Jeff Brownfield was recorded as a write-in winner for Blanchard mayor and Nancy Mayer as Shenandoah park commissioner).
Kristen, who assisted staff in highlighting and verifying results, and the assigned readers (Brian, Todd and Judy) worked through multiple "tapes" of precinct sheets. The board recorded Iowa Western Community College public-measure totals in several precincts (examples reported during canvass included precinct-level tallies such as Yes 296 / No 83 in one batch and Yes 114 / No 64 in another). Many local school-director and council races in the county were uncontested or had low vote totals.
The board concluded the canvass with the chair stating, "That concludes the canvas," and moved on to the published agenda.
