District 30 – Authoritative Russell win, but House is a squeaker

Pat Powers

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Lance Russell won his race for Senate and underlined it with a 59-41% win. But the House race may be a recount that’s closer than the last one, with 15 votes between 2nd and 3rd place.

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3 thoughts on “District 30 – Authoritative Russell win, but House is a squeaker”

  2. Interesting that 6,850 votes were cast in the House race, but only 4,047 in the Senate race. Seems Russell may have defeated Rampelberg, but didn’t exactly receive a clear mandate from voters as, 2803 people who showed up to vote, voted neither. (Vote for neither: 41%, Russell: 35%, Rampelberg: 24%) The House race demonstrates what happens when 5 unqualified candidates compete. Apparently 77% of the voters think that neither Goodwin or Frye-Mueller are worthy of their vote. Instead of a recount, maybe they should start both races all over and see if they can find some candidates voters clearly believe can do the job in Pierre.

    1. That’s because they cast 2 votes in the House race.

      So, actually, they case 4047 in the senate, and 3425 (x2) in the House, which shows an undervote/bullet vote of nearly 600.

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