BROOKINGS COUNTY (11-4-26) — Brookings County elected a new sheriff last night.
Manny Langstraat was elected sheriff with 5885 votes to Dave Biteler’s 5324 votes.
Also last night — Marty Stanwick was elected to the Brookings County Commission. Stanwick was the top vote getter with 6151 votes. The other two candidates elected to the Brookings County Commission last night were the incumbents — Kelly VanderWal with 5972 votes. And Incumbent commissioner Larry Jensen was re-elected with 5,790 votes.
A new City Council Member was elected last night as well. Al Austreim was the top vote-getter in the city council race, receiving 2,935 votes. Also elected to the City Council was Lisa Hager. She had been previously appointed to a council seat and has now won election to that seat after receiving 2539 votes.
The incumbent District 7 State Representatives were also re-elected last night — that’s Roger DeGroot and Mellissa Heermann.
In other races: Jenna Baker wins election as Brookings County Finance Officer, receiving 6689 votes. And in the District 8 State Senate race, incumbent Casey Crabtree won re-election with 6100 votes.. District 7 State Sen Tim Reed of Brookings ran unopposed and will also be re-elected to the state senate.
There were 11,655 votes cast yesterday in Brookings County. Vote calculating was slow, with final numbers being released shortly after midnight.
Statewide Races
Incumbent Gov. Larry Rhoden won re-election with approximately 64 percent of the vote.
U.S. Senator Mike Rounds also won re-election, receiving about 60 percent of the vote.
Attorney General Marty Jackley received about 64 percent of the vote in the U.S. House race, and he will be South Dakota’s next congressman, replacing Dusty Johnson — who was not on last night’s ballot.
Two of the proposed South Dakota Constitutional Amendments passed last night — Amendment J, requiring citizenship to vote and Amendment K, establishing an unclaimed property trust fund both passed with roughly 61 percent of the vote
Amendment L received 58 percent no votes and did not pass — it would’ve raised the threshold constitutional amendments need in order to pass in South Dakota.
And Amendment I, which would’ve eliminated Medicaid expansion if federal support for it drops below a certain threshold, received 56 no votes and also does not pass.
— Brookings Radio News
