Canvassing of local election results this week

Canvassing of local races is scheduled today and tomorrow.

Beltrami County announced their canvassing will take place at 2 p.m., and the Bemidji School Board scheduled their canvassing for tomorrow at 5:45 p.m.

The City of Bemidji will also canvass tonight at 5 p.m., and shared some reviewed but still not official results.

Voter turnout throughout the city was 63 percent, with Ward 5 having the highest turnout at 68 percent and Ward 2 the lowest at 57 percent.

Undervotes, or ticket skipping, for local races showed 227 skipped the Ward 2 race, 126 skipped the Ward 4 race, and 433 skipped the At Large contest.


Larissa Donovan is the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting and has been, almost without interruption, since Election Day 2016. She covers all the beats in north-central Minnesota, such as local government, crime, education, environment and social issues. She studied communications at Bemidji State University. You can follow along with Larissa's live tweets of meetings and events on Twitter!


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