By Audrey Posten

According to unofficial results, Doug Reimer and Brian Harbaugh have advanced on to the November general election after earning the top two vote totals in the June 2 Republican primary for the Clayton County Board of Supervisors.

Clayton County Auditor Jennifer Garms said election results for Clayton County were to be canvassed on June 9. “In this canvass, you will see that both Harbaugh and Reimer secured the nomination for Republican candidates for board of supervisors. Election night results list percentage of total votes cast. In order to determine if a spot was secured, the total votes must be divided by the two seats and then multiplied by 35% to yield the target number to pass,” she explained.

Reimer, an incumbent running for a second four-year term, led the four-person field with 752 votes, followed by Harbaugh with 631. Douglas Puffett received 513 votes and Paul Tiffany 232. Current supervisor Steve Doeppke, whose seat is also up with Reimer’s, is not seeking re-election.

No Democratic candidates filed.

Other county races were uncontested, with Linda Zuercher picking up 1,148 votes in the Republican primary for county treasurer and Zach Herrmann receiving 1,059 for county attorney. Both are incumbents. Republican Josie Fettkether earned 1,107 votes as she seeks her first full term as county recorder.

Like supervisor, no Democratic candidates filed for Clayton County treasurer, recorder or attorney.

A total of 2,009 Clayton County voters cast ballots in the June 2 primary election—1,248 for the Republican Party and 761 for the Democratic Party. That is a slight decrease from the 2,055 cast in 2024.

Among the larger races, Clayton County voters supported incumbent State House 64 Rep. Jason Gearhart with 1,046 votes in the Republican primary. He received 2,189 votes across District 64, which also includes Allamakee County and a small portion of Dubuque County.

In the Democratic primary, 682 votes from Clayton County were cast in favor of Brian Bruening for State House District 64. District-wide, he received 1,233.

In the federal and state races, Clayton County support largely reflected voters’ decisions across Iowa.

For the U.S. Senate Republican primary, Ashley Hinson garnered 974 votes in Clayton County, as opposed to 236 for Jim Carlin. State-wide, 153,022 votes were cast for Hinson and 53,179 for Carlin.

Hinson will face Democrat Josh Turek in the general election, after he topped Zach Wahls’s 71,632 votes with 120,256. Four hundred eleven Clayton County voters supported Turek in the Democratic primary, while 347 were in favor of Wahls.

In U.S. Rep. District 2, a seat which Hinson currently holds, Joe Mitchell defeated Charlie McClintock 24,404 votes to 15,261 for the Republican nomination. Mitchell received 690 votes in Clayton County and McClintock 381.

In the Democratic primary, Clayton County delivered 377 votes to Lindsay James, 189 for Kathy Dolter and 151 for Clint Twedt-Ball. James won the nomination with 27,709 votes district-wide, followed by Twedt-Ball at 11,528 and Dolter 8,666.

For Iowa governor, Zach Lahn (80,383 votes) edged Randy Feenstra (78,741) to become the Republican nominee. Adam Steen was the next closest challenger to those two at 30,669 votes.

Feenstra was more popular among Clayton County voters, who cast 485 votes for him and 470 for Lahn.

Rob Sand, who was running uncontested in the Democratic primary, received 746 votes in Clayton County and 189,342 across the state.

In other state-wide races, Chris Cournoyer received 99,985 votes to Abigail Maas’s 84,661 in the Republican primary. Maas had an edge in Clayton County, picking up 552 votes while Cournoyer earned 503.

Republican incumbents Secretary of State Paul D. Pate, Treasurer of State Roby Smith, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Attorney General Brenna Bird were running unopposed and advanced on to the general election on Nov. 3.

Democratic challengers, who were also running unopposed in their primaries, include Ryan Peterman for Secretary of State, Taylor Wettach for Auditor of State, John Norwood for Treasurer of State, Chris Jones for Secretary of Agriculture and Nate Willems for Attorney General.