Jim Tadman won the Polk County Sheriff’s election, Representative Deb Kiel easily won her District 1B race and Collin Peterson won his U.S. House District 7 race in a tight contest.
Polk County Sheriff –
Jim Tadman pulled away for a comfortable 1,773 vote victory in the Polk County Sheriff election. Tadman will replace the retiring Barb Erdman. Tadman was humbled by the victory when he first found out he was going to win when KROX Called him after 11:00 p.m. “This is overwhelming, I am honored and thank everyone for their support. I am very appreciative of the support I received from Polk County residents. It was very grueling and it turned the family upside down, but it was well worth it and my family was behind me,” said Tadman. “I think the biggest thing is since I have been with Sheriff Erdman for the last five years we have been working on projects and working on new ways to do the best for the sheriff’s department so I’m not going to turn our office upside down and we will try to do the best for the residents of Polk County and we have a lot of great people in the sheriff’s department and we are going to start off strong.”
District 1B –
Deb Kiel, a Crookston area farmer, won reelection by almost doubling her opponents total with a whopping 10,028 votes. Kiel was first elected to represent District 1B when she beat Bernie Lieder. She will be serving her fifth term and currently, she chairs the Subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care, Agriculture Finance, Health and Hume Services Reform, Rules and Legislative Administration, Subcommittee on Workplace Safety and Respect and Transportation Finance.
US House District 7-
Incumbent Collin Peterson (DFL) won his closest race in many years by beating Dave Hughes by 4.26 percent (or 11,997 votes) to win. Peterson was first elected to serve District 7 in 1990 and has been there ever since. He is the ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jim Tadman Deb Kiel Collin Peterson
Polk Co. Sheriff Final | Votes | District 1B Final | US House Final | Votes | |||
Jim Tadman | 6528 | Deb Kiel – R | 10028 | Collin Peterson-D | 146652 | ||
Randy Sondrol | 4755 | Brent Lindstrom – D | 5173 | Dave Hughes-R | 134655 | ||
Polk County Attorney | |||||||
Greg Widseth | 9592 | ||||||
Write-In | 156 |