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Door County Election Brings Mix of New Faces, Narrow Victories

Voters across Door County elected new local representatives in Tuesday’s election and rejected a school funding referendum.

 

In Sturgeon Bay, voters chose incumbent Spencer Gustafson over Joshua Julian in District 4. In District 6, incumbent Seth Wiederanders narrowly defeated Susan Hilsabeck, by a mere 9 votes.

 

Town of Sevastopol results showed Jeanne Vogel with 555 votes, Stacie Leist with 541, Keith Felhofer with 488 and Kimberly Denil with 259 in closely contested races.

 

In the Town of Washington, Rich Ellefson led with 278 votes, followed by Brian Mann with 260 and Lee Baxter with 66.

 

Liberty Grove voters selected Dan Watts with 381 votes, Sylvann Welcome with 417, Rick Kingsbury with 308 and William Sherman with 253 in multiple-seat races.

 

In the Town of Gardner, Glenn Dart defeated Bryan Ford.

 

Several new faces were elected in the county board races with some incumbents not getting re-elected. Alexis Heim Peter defeated incumbent Phillip Rockwell in District 10 while Dave Smith edged incumbent Bob Bultman in District 17 and Theresa Cain Bieri topped David Enigl in District 16. The board also welcomed new members with Jason Tlachac defeating Jan Guillette in District 3 and Joe Rogers narrowly topping Nancy Barnowsky Goss by three votes in District 21.

 

In addition to those who ran unopposed, incumbent Ryan Shaw kept his seat with a win over Amy Austad Labott in District 9.  

 

Final results were reported overnight following the close of polls.

 

You can find the full results of the election in Door County at this link.

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