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Monroe County Election Results Finalized

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(Zach Herdon, WFIU/WTIU News)

Final vote totals for Monroe County’s primary elections were released today. Elections across the state were finalized later than usual this year because of COVID-19 and mail-in ballots.

Former Bloomington City Council member Andy Ruff received 11,234 votes in Monroe County, leading to his victory in securing the Democratic nomination in the Ninth Congressional District. He got 63.5 percent of the Monroe County vote and easily won the nomination in the 13-county district with about 19,000 total votes, more than twice the number of any other candidate. He will face incumbent Trey Hollingsworth, Libertarian Tonya Millis and Independent John Tilford in the November election.

In the Democratic primary Indiana State Senate District 40, former Monroe County Council member Shelli Yoder’s final vote total was 14,806 compared to 3,023 for state Democratic Party Chair John Zody and 436 for Trent Feuerbach.

Here are other totals for Monroe County voters only:

Indiana State Representative, District 60- REPUBLICANS 

Peggy Mayfield (District winner) —1,071 votes – 78 percent 

Dave Rinehart — 302 – 22 percent 

Indiana State Representative, District 62- REPUBLICANS 

Jeff Ellington (District winner) — 1,632 votes – 77.57 percent

Greg Knott — 472 – 22.43 percent 

Judge of the Monroe Circuit Court, 10th Judicial Circuit, No. 5 DEMOCRATS 

Kara Elaine Krothe —  12,414 votes— 68.48 percent                       

Jeff Kehr — 5,715 —31.52 percent

Judge of the Monroe Circuit Court, 10th Judicial Circuit, No. 9 DEMOCRATS 

Geoff Bradley  —10,740 votes — 62.27 percent      

Alphonso (Al) Manns — 6,507 —37.73 percent           

Monroe County Council At-Large (Top 3 win nominations) DEMOCRATS

Cheryl Munson                        14,436 votes               33.14 percent

Trent Deckard                         11,130                         25.55  

Geoff McKim                            10,402                        23.88  

Dominic P. Thompson               5,027                           11.54  

Karl R. Boehm                          2,570                           5.9

 

President Of United States- DEMOCRATS     

Joseph R Biden                    12,885 votes               65.87 percent

Michael R Bloomberg             60                                0.31 

Pete Buttigieg                         665                              3.4 

Tulsi Gabbard                          101                              0.52

Amy Klobachar                        155                              0.79

Bernie Sanders                        4,260                           21.78

Tom Steyer                             17                                0.09

Elizabeth Warren                    1,244                           6.36

Andrew Yang                          174                              0.89

 

President Of The United States- REPUBLICAN

Donald J Trump                       6,259 votes                 91.84 percent

Bill Weld                                  556                              8.16

To see a a complete list of Monroe Couty's results visit the Monroe County Election Central page

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