2024 Primary Results: St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids Voters Decide City Council and Mayoral Candidates for November

(KNSI) — The results are in, and voters now know who will be on the final ballot for city council and mayor in St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids.

St. Cloud Mayor – Top two vote getters will face off in November.

Steven Schiller 255 3.50%
Carol Lewis 1,450 19.91%
Mike Conway 1,516 20.82%
Jake Anderson 1,710 23.48%
James F Trantina III 1,029 14.13%
Anne Buckvold 1,322 18.15%
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City Council Member at Large – Top six vote getters move on to the general election for three open seats.

Omar Abdullahi Podi 1,316 6.78%
George Hontos 2,156 11.11%
Patrick Crooks 331 1.71%
Scott Brodeen 1,550 7.99%
Mark Johnson 1,880 9.69%
Hudda Ibrahim 2,431 12.53%
Alex Cutchey 587 3.03%
Bill Doll 764 3.94%
Michael H. Peterson 513 2.64%
Garrett Zimmerman 561 2.89%
Mindy Ellingson 1,217 6.27%
Emmanuel Oppong 688 3.55%
Charlie Hobbs 1,198 6.17%
Tami Calhoun 2,694 13.88%
Nicholas Lengyel 995 5.13%
Lenora Hunt 523 2.70%

There were three candidates for Sauk Rapids mayor, and Jason Ellering will face Nicholas Sauer in November. Ellering won with 48.73% to Sauer’s 44.26%. The third candidate, Andrew Neussendorfer, received 7.01%.

For Congress, incumbent Representative Tom Emmer (R-CD06) handily won out over Republican challenger Chris Corey with 87.05% of the vote to 12.95%. Emmer will take on Democrat Jeanne Hendricks in November as she wins with 83.81% of the vote versus Austin D. Winkleman with 16.19%.

In District 7, Republican Michelle Fischbach successfully defended her seat over challenger Steve Boyd, 64.65% of the vote versus 35.35%. Boyd forced a stalemate at the GOP endorsing convention earlier this year and prevented Fischbach from getting the party’s stamp of approval. Fischbach will go up against Democrat AJ (John) Peters in November.

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