The preliminary results for the 2019 city and school election are in, and there were a few races people in Dallas County were watching closely on Tuesday night.

One of those was perhaps surprisingly for the Perry School Board. With a late push for a write in campaign, the write-in votes were the most cast with an unofficial total of 415, or 28.27% of the votes cast. However, whether or not any of the write-in candidates received enough votes to unseat the incumbent Board members on the ballot won’t be known until the election canvass next week. Of the incumbents, Linda Andorf received 382 votes, or 26.02%, Kenia Alarcon came away with 340, or 23.16%, and Jim Lutmer had 331, or 22.55%. On the City side for Perry, the incumbents each ran unopposed, write-in or otherwise, so Mayor John Andorf, ward one Councilmember Dean Berkland, ward three Councilmember Barb Wolling, and at-large Councilmember Chuck Schott will retain their positions.

The same can be said for the City of Adel, with Mayor Jim Peters, and incumbent at-large Councilmembers Shirley McAdon, Dan Miller, and Bob Ockerman receiving nearly all of the votes. However, the key race in the Adel area was for the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School Board. For the three open seats, the top vote-getters were incumbent Tim Canney with 675 votes, and newcomers Nicole West and Heith Hockenberry who had 614 and 578, respectively, to earn places on the Board. For the vacant seat, incumbent Bart Banwart received 576 votes, or 62.75% of the total.

Other winners in contested races elsewhere in Dallas County include: Danny Beyer, Ryan Coon, and Ryan Kluss for the Dallas Center City Council; Maris Masengill for Dawson Mayor; Karen Wilson and Kelly Summer for DeSoto City Council; June Rector, Alecia Lleshi, and Timothy Hays for the Linden City Council; Dave Griffith for Redfield Mayor, as well as Amber Baker, John Hoy, and Vince Stonehocker for the Redfield City Council; Kelly Kirts, and Jared Stone for the Woodward City Council; and Sam Behrens for the District 5 seat on the Woodward-Granger School Board.

The results are all unofficial until the canvass next week by the Dallas County Supervisors.