Throughout the state voters turned out for Tuesday’s primary election.
It appears that Democrat Mark Dayton, Republican Tom Emmer and Independent Tom Horner will vie for the governorship during the general election this fall.
The DFL governor race was the most contested of the primary. At press time, with 95 percent of the vote tallied, Dayton held a 5,590 vote lead over Margaret Anderson Kelliher.
The state preference mirrored that of Yellow Medicine County where Dayton received 303 votes, Kelliher 256 and Matt Entenza 142.
Of the 6,138 registered voters in YMC (prior to the opening of the polls), 15 percent, cast a vote.
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Granite Falls, Minn. —
Throughout the state voters turned out for Tuesday’s primary election.
It appears that Democrat Mark Dayton, Republican Tom Emmer and Independent Tom Horner will vie for the governorship during the general election this fall.
The DFL governor race was the most contested of the primary. At press time, with 95 percent of the vote tallied, Dayton held a 5,590 vote lead over Margaret Anderson Kelliher.
The state preference mirrored that of Yellow Medicine County where Dayton received 303 votes, Kelliher 256 and Matt Entenza 142.
Of the 6,138 registered voters in YMC (prior to the opening of the polls), 15 percent, cast a vote.
