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The Dallas County Auditor’s Office is still hard at work, even now that the $22.9 million bond referendum has been passed, and work on the new law enforcement facility can proceed.

The vote will remain unofficial until the canvas, which County Auditor Julia Helm said will happen during the May 9 Board of Supervisors meeting. Unofficially, the overall numbers were 5,859 “Yes” votes to 1,690 “No” votes, a difference of 77.61% to 22.39%. Helm said they saw a 14.29% voter turnout, which is higher than any of the three prior bond referendum votes.

She also reported that the measure passed in all 34 precincts, with the smallest margin of 61.3% being in the Lincoln-Washington-Lynn precinct, and the largest margin of 97.33% being in the West Des Moines 321 precinct. Locally, the margin in the three Perry precincts were 79.39, 80.12, and 78.57% respectively, and in the two Adel precincts it was 68.8 and 75.26% respectively. In order to pass, the measure needed to receive 60% yes votes.

See below for a full list of results from the 34 Dallas County precincts.

Precinct — Yes — No — Total Votes — %Approval
Adams — 160 — 85 — 245 — 65.31%
Adel 1 — 247 — 112 — 359 — 68.80%
Adel 2 — 356 — 117 — 473 — 75.26%
Beaver/Des Moines — 190 — 102 — 292 — 65.07%
Clive 5 — 194 — 19 — 213 — 91.08%
Clive 6 — 209 — 44 — 253 — 82.61%
Colfax/Adel — 218 — 86 — 304 — 71.71%
DeSoto — 60 — 37 — 97 — 61.86%
Lincoln/Washington/Linn — 108 — 68 — 176 — 61.36%
Perry 1 — 181 — 47 — 228 — 79.39%
Perry 2 — 133 — 33 — 166 — 80.12%
Perry 3 — 143 — 39 — 182 — 78.57%
Spring Valley/Dallas — 112 — 36 — 148 — 75.68%
Sugar Grove/Dallas Center — 455 — 70 — 525 — 86.67
Union — 196 — 94 — 290 — 67.59%
Urbandale 13 — 167 — 42 — 209 — 79.90%
Urbandale 14 — 194 — 31 — 225 — 86.22%
Urbandale 15 — 106 — 25 — 131 — 80.92%
Van Meter — 243 — 101 — 344 — 70.64%
Walnut/Grimes/Grant — 153 — 85 — 238 — 64.29%
Waukee 1 — 315 — 73 — 388 — 81.19%
Waukee 2 — 132 — 44 — 176 — 75.00%
Waukee 3 — 225 — 37 — 262 — 85.88%
Waukee 4 — 224 — 56 — 280 — 80.00%
Waukee 5 — 163 — 59 — 222 — 74.42%
Waukee 6 — 141 — 33 — 174 — 81.03%
West Des Moines 221 — 125 — 28 — 153 — 81.70%
West Des Moines 222 — 125 — 17 — 142 — 88.03%
West Des Moines 223 — 97 — 21 –118 — 82.20%
West Des Moines 224 — 38 — 9 — 47 — 80.85%
West Des Moines 225 — 87 — 13 — 100 — 87.00%
West Des Moines 226 — 73 — 9 — 82 — 89.02%
West Des Moines 321 — 219 — 6 — 225 — 97.33%
West Des Moines 322 — 70 — 12 — 82 — 85.37%
Total — 5859 — 1690 — 7549 — 77.59%