Election Results from the City of Marshfield
Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 -- 11:39 AM
(WDLB) -Wisconsin state school Superintendent Tony Evers has won the Democratic primary for Governor and will face Republican Incumbent Scott Walker in November.Evers emerged from a field of eight candidates in Tuesday’s primary. He was the only candidate to have won election statewide before and now faces his biggest challenge against Walker. The 66-year-old Evers has been the state’s education chief since 2009 and has clashed with Walker in the past on mostly education issues. And just like he did the statewide vote, Evers won the city of Marshfield by a wide margin??"getting nearly one-thousand votes. The next-closest challenger was Marshfield-born Kelda Helen Roys, a former state legislator in the Madison area. She had 145 Marshfield votes. She was followed by Curtiss-area native and Owen-Withee graduate Mike McCabe.
Nearly 33-hundred of Marshfield’s 96-hundred voters went to the polls. That’s a 34-percent voter turnout. City Clerk Deb Hall said it’s much higher than in recent primary elections in the city.
"It is higher! In 2016, we had 24% and had just over 2,500 people voting. In 2014, we only had a 12% voter turnout. So, this wonderful!"
443 absentee ballots were cast in Marshfield ahead of the Tuesday primary. Hall said that was also higher than normal for a primary election day in the city.
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