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Gallion elected to third term as North Dakota state auditor

Republican State Auditor Josh Gallion, left, is challenged by Democratic-NPL Party candidate Tim Lamb in the 2024 general election. (Photos contributed)BISMARCK, N.D. (Mary Steurer – North Dakota Monitor) Josh Gallion will serve another term as North Dakota’s state auditor, voters decided Tuesday. The Republican incumbent led with 68% of the vote in early results. Democratic-NPL candidate Tim Lamb, an attorney…

Moorhead voters reject capital project levy proposal

MOORHEAD (KVRR-KFGO) – Moorhead voters narrowly rejected a levy proposal that would have funded capital projects by generating around $43 million over 10 years. The proposal failed by about 600 votes. The funding would have addressed technology, facility, curriculum, and transportation needs across the district. In 2019, Moorhead voters overwhelmingly approved a $110 million bond referendum to build a new…

Moorhead voters make picks for City Council

MOORHEAD (KVRR-KFGO) – Results are in for Moorhead City Council races. In Ward 1, Nicole Mattson defeated Matt Gilbertson. Emily Moore will represent Ward 2 after beating out Kassandra Sofferman and Benjamin Hammer. Ward 3 saw Lisa Borgen defeat Noelle Harden. In Ward 4, Sebastian McDougall won over Zak Amin. Categories: Local News, Minnesota News, Moorhead, Politics / Elections Tags:…

Younggren elected district judge

Ryan YounggrenFARGO (KVRR-KFGO) – Longtime Assistant Cass County State’s Attorney Ryan Younggren won his bid to be an East-Central North Dakota district judge. Younggren defeated Fargo attorney and District Court Referee Daniel Gast by a 64% to 35% margin. He will take the place of Judge John Irby, who is retiring after serving 22 years. Younggren has been with the…

More North Dakotans voted before Election Day than on it

FARGO, N.D. (Jeff Beach – North Dakota Monitor)More than half the votes by North Dakota voters were cast before Election Day, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. A news release from the office said 62.5% of eligible North Dakotans voted in the 2024 election in unofficial results. Of the 371,510 ballots cast, 182,012 — 49% — came on Election…

AP Race Call: Republican Michelle Fischbach wins reelection to U.S. House in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District

U.S. Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R) MN’s 7th Congressional DistrictWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Michelle Fischbach won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Minnesota on Tuesday. Fischbach is a former state senator who rose to become Senate president. She also served as Minnesota’s lieutenant governor in 2018. She defeated a 30-year incumbent when she first won election to Congress in…

AP Race Call: Republican Julie Fedorchak wins election to U.S. House in North Dakota’s 1st Congressional District

Republican Julie Fedorchak won election to North Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat on Tuesday. The longtime public utilities regulator beat Democrat Trygve Hammer. The two ran to succeed Republican Kelly Armstrong, the third-term congressman who ran for governor this year. Fedorchak won a five-person Republican primary in June. The Associated Press declared Fedorchak the winner at 9:56 p.m. EST. Categories:…

Donald Trump Declared Winner in North Dakota

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared winners Tuesday in some states where polls had just closed, and in some cases before any votes had been released. How is that possible? While hotly contested races that take hours or days to count may attract the most attention, the AP for decades has called landslide or uncontested races at poll closing time. That’s what happened…

Republican Kevin Cramer wins 2nd term in US Senate representing North Dakota

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota won a second term on Tuesday. The veteran Republican politician beat Democrat Katrina Christiansen, an assistant professor of engineering at the University of Jamestown who had tried to win a Senate seat once before. Cramer, a former congressman, first won the seat in 2018, defeating Democrat Heidi Heitkamp ’s reelection bid in a widely watched…