Election Results

Osawatomie voters again said no to forming a storm water Utility.

Charter Ordinance No. 13 failed with 586 no votes to 296 yes.

The council tried to establish the storm water utility in December 2008. A protest petition gathered enough signatures to put the proposed utility before voters last year, and it went down to defeat by roughly a 2 to 1 margin.

City officials wanted to establish the utility to offset the cost of a federally mandated levy certification but the measure drew criticism for not setting a flat fee.

In the County Commission races, Danny Gallagher was elected with 72 percent of the votes over Joshua Furnish. Ron Stiles and James Wise ran unopposed.

Miami County voters showed strong support for the republican candidates.

For Governor, 69 percent of voters favored Sam Brownback. Jerry Moran received 72 percent of the votes for U.S. Senator and Lynn Jenkins had 72 percent of the vote for U.S. Representative.

Statewide, Brownback was elected with 63 percent of the vote. Moran won the Senate race with 70 percent and Jenkins earned 63 percent. Republicans also took the state treasurer race with Ron Estes getting 59 percent of the vote and Derek Scmidt was elected as Attorney General with 55 percent of the votes.

All results are unofficial until the County Commission confirms the votes on Nov. 8.

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