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MARTIN COUNTY -- The votes are in and electeds will be heading to their respective seats across Martin County.
Mayoral races had one opening, city council races two and school board races three.
Judith Perkins will retain her seat as Mayor of Ceylon, taking down former mayor John Gibeau by a 67 to 32 percent margin.
Ceylon had 46 percent write-in votes to 29 percent for Armin Kronback and 25 percent for Todd Peta. This article will be updated when it can be determined if a write-in candidate took one of the two available seats.
In Dunnell, Lori Goette and Kayla Sybrant beat Bernie Olberding to take the two city council seats with 42 percent and 33 percent of the votes to Olberding's 23 percent.
Mark Breyfogle had no opposition, so he will be Mayor of Dunnell with 90 percent of the votes.
In Granada, John Schofield and Matt Brown beat Kenny Felion and Kevin Schleininger to be on the Granada City Council. Schofield and Brown had 33 percent and 28 percent of the votes while Felion and Schleininger had 24 percent and 15 percent.
Matt Schuster ran unopposed and handily won to be Mayor of Granada with 94 percent of the votes.
Scott Stith beat Thomas Wakey to become Mayor of Northrop 65 to 35 percent.
For Northrop City Council, Richard Weber and Bart Johnson ran unopposed and won with 52 percent and 48 percent of the votes.
Sherburn Mayor was won by Warren Olson, who had no one else file to run against him and accumulated 98 percent of the vote.
The same was true for Sherburn's City Council race, as Sarah Kramer had 53 percent and Michael Kautzman had 45 percent.
For Trimont, Bruce Borntrager beat Casey Carlson 58 to 42 percent to become its new Mayor.
On the Trimont City Council, which saw six entries for two seats, Josh Paulson and Jon Holtz beat Stephany Feely, Alyssa Niezgocki, Bradford Flohrs and Justin Lubben. Paulson and Holtz got 32 percent and 25 percent respectively while Feely got 18 percent, Niezgocki got 9 percent and Flohrs and Lubben got 8 percent.
In Truman, Ron Kelley defeated Sarah Chambers 62 to 37 percent to become the new mayor. Truman had no one enter for city council, so this article will be updated with the two winners from the write-in votes when that information is available.
A tight race emerged in Welcome for city council, as Tami Gerhardt and Kim Holm beat Lynda Stauter to be on the council. Gerhardt and Holm had 34 percent and 33 percent votes, while Stauter had 32 percent.
Welcome had Dan Schmidtke win by default for Mayor of Welcome with 96 percent of the vote.
Fairmont School Board was uncontested, with Michael Edman, Jen Harris and Betsy Tino winning by default with 34 percent, 34 percent and 31 percent of the vote respectively.
For Martin County West School Board. Paul Schoen, Sam Meixell and Brandon Clarke were elected with 15 percent, 15 percent and 14 percent of the votes respectively, while Justin White had 13 percent, Tom Studer and Bethany Miller had 12 percent, Amanda Weihe had 11 percent and Cameron Kamlitz had 8 percent.
In the Granada-Huntley-East Chain School Board race Ken Madsen, Jessica Nowicki and Dylan Celander won with 35 percent, 33 percent and 32 percent respectively.
Truman School Board had Logan Werner, Michael Pfeil and James Farnum win with 34 percent, 34 percent and 31 percent respectively.