NEBRASKA CITY- Otoe County is reporting a 76.5 percent voter turnout with over 8,000 ballots cast in a county short of 11,000 registered voters.

The county’s voters favored Donald Trump with 67 percent of the vote. They favored re-election of Republicans Deb Fischer, Pete Ricketts and Adrian Smith to congress. Ricketts and Smith received 68 percent of the vote.

For county board, district 5, Incumbent Republican Danny Crownover defeated Libertarian candidate Craig Bolz 1,240 to 589.

The county favored Robert Hallstrom of Syracuse over Dennis Schaardt of Table Rock by 2,100 votes. Hallstrom finishes with 55 percent of the vote with 4,644. Schaardt had 2,536 votes.

For Syracuse School Board the top three vote getters are Amy Wemhoff, 1,506; Tyler Kreifels, 1,331; and Brianne Neemann Wilhelm, 1,309.

The top three vote getters for Palmyra school board are Tim Cheney, 532; Jaimi Calfee, 522; and Brandon Desh, 402.

The Talmage sales tax fails on a vote of 48 against and 36 in favor.

The Unadilla fire district levy override passed 236 to 122.

Otoe County favored Initiative 434 by 55 percent were against 439 by 53 percent.

 

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Early voting results Otoe County

President

Trump/Vance 1,282

Harris/Walz 881

Senate

Deb Fischer, 1,180, 53 percent

Dan Osborn, 964, 43 percent

County Board, Dist. 5

R- Danny Crownover, 250, 52 percent

Lib - Craig Bolz, 157, 32 percent

 

Legislature Dist 1

Robert Hallstrom, 1,123, 50 percent

Dennis Schaardt, 687, 30 percent

Syracuse school board (vote 3)

Amy Wemhoff, 265, 20 percent

Brianne Neemann Wilhelm, 229, 18 percent

Tyler Kreifels, 219, 17 percent

Aaron Lessmann, 111, 8 percent

Kathryn Szczepaniak, 110, 8 percent

 

Palmyra school board (vote 3)

Jaimi Calfee, 134, 18 percent

Tim Cheney, 121, 17 percent

Brandon Desh, 102, 14 percent

Vicki Hillman, 68, 9 percent

Jim Tate, 51, 7 percent

Mayor of Nebraska City

Bryan Bequette, 655, 65 percent

Timothy Morgan, 168, 16 percent

Syracuse council (2)

Robert Johnson, 126, 33 percent

Wesley Halvorsen, 125, 32 percent

 

Dunbar village board (2)

Lorna Anderson, 6, 30 percent

Mike Doty, 4, 20 percent

Terry Weible, 3, 15 percent

Scott Richardson, 1, 5 percent

 

Talmage Sales Tax

For  8, 50 percent

Against, 8, 50 percent

Talmage proposes a sales tax to join Bennet, Eagle, Elmwood,  Murray, Palmyra,  Sterling and Unadilla on the list of villages with a sales tax.

 

Dunbar village (vote 2)

Unadilla village (vote 3)

Dale Stoner, 8, 28 percent

Scott Hincker, 5, 17 percent

Jason Schomerus, 5, 17 percent

Unadilla Fire district

Yes, 25, 51 percent

No, 19

 

 

Talmage sales tax

Talmage proposes a sales tax to join Bennet, Eagle, Elmwood,  Murray, Palmyra,  Sterling and Unadilla on the list of villages with a sales tax.

Unadilla fire district levy override

The Unadilla fire district would be allowed to levy property tax not to exceed 1.4 cents per $100 in taxable valuation.

Initiative 434

Prohibits abortion in second and third trimester similar to the state’s current 12-week ban.

Initiative 439

Establishes constitutional right to abortion

Initiative 437

Medical cannabis

Initiative 438

Medical Cannabis Commission

Referendum 435

Educational scholarships to private schools

Retain

Repeal

Initiative 436

Paid sick leave