The votes are in - Werkhoven, Magnuson unofficial winners
January 25, 2012
An unofficial tally of votes Tuesday night showed Bob Werkhoven keeping his title as mayor by a 268 vote margin, and Duane (Dewey) Magnuson winning the commissioner seat by a margin of 73 votes.
Werkhoven garnered 56.7% of the vote to Dean Ross's 43.3%, while Magnuson had 51.8% of total votes to Ken Evenson's 48.2%.
The polls at City Hall closed at 7 p.m., and just 4 hours later, the unofficial winners were declared by the election canvassing board. Election results will not become official until all ballots are reviewed by the election canvassing board, which is set to meet Jan. 30. Werkhoven and Magnuson will take office after the canvassing board's official approval of the election results.
Two thousand twenty votes were cast in the election, with 660 ballots coming in the form of absentee voting, according to City Auditor Avis Richter.
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9 hours 22 min ago - Or until Brian and Lloyd
2 weeks 2 days ago - Great Idea
2 weeks 5 days ago - vcsanity
3 weeks 6 days ago - How is the community supposed to heal?
4 weeks 5 hours ago - I second that motion.
4 weeks 6 hours ago - Congrats Valley City
4 weeks 7 hours ago - The power structure of the
4 weeks 8 hours ago - Whatever John W., Whatever
4 weeks 8 hours ago - We The People
4 weeks 12 hours ago
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Or until Brian and Lloyd
February 5, 2012 by The Green Lantern, 2 weeks 2 days ago
Comment: 10006
Or until Brian and Lloyd come up with something new.
How is the community supposed to heal?
January 25, 2012 by faithful, 4 weeks 5 hours ago
Comment: 9802
First of all, I want to say congratulations to Mayor Werkhoven & Commissioner Magnuson. But if everyone wants the community to come together and heal, to start new, everyone needs to move on with a positive attitude. It is over and we must all pull together to do this. The people have spoken, yes, its true. Now other people need to please stop posting the negative and move to the positive. Once again, congratulations to Mayor Werkhoven & Commissioner Magnuson.
The power structure of the
January 25, 2012 by NBF (not verified), 4 weeks 8 hours ago
Comment: 9795
The power structure of the city has been disrupted. George feels it.
We The People
January 25, 2012 by vcsanity, 4 weeks 12 hours ago
Comment: 9783
Who was it who said: "You can fool 43% of the people some of the time, but you can't fool 100% of the people all the time"
.. even when you have a brother who thinks he controls the media; ....even when you outspend those of common sense by 5 to 1. Get the message? We, the people, have spoken.
vcsanity
January 26, 2012 by gpaw, 3 weeks 6 days ago
Comment: 9841
it seems that vcsanity can't get over it. its over get over it and move on. don't keep on with the rangeling. congrats to bob and dewey
and thanks to the two that didn't win for running and helping make our
system work.
Whatever John W., Whatever
January 25, 2012 by NBF (not verified), 4 weeks 8 hours ago
Comment: 9794
Whatever John W., Whatever
Proud of our community
January 25, 2012 by Bubba (not verified), 4 weeks 19 hours ago
Comment: 9779
I am proud of our community that showed up for the polls. The majority has been heard and now we can move on and heal without all the nonsense.
I second that motion.
January 25, 2012 by bornandraisedinVC, 4 weeks 6 hours ago
Comment: 9800
Time to move forward.
Congrats Valley City
January 25, 2012 by bornandraisedinVC, 4 weeks 7 hours ago
Comment: 9799
Congrats to the winners... keep moving forward...