The results are in, and one big headline is the turnout.
More than 5,700 of the city’s 13,378 eligible voters turned out to vote on Tuesday — or 42.8%. This is significantly higher than projected … and surely a sign of the contentious political times we’re in.
You can see South Milwaukee’s election results here.
Among the highlights:
- The 1st District aldermanic race, the only contested City Council contest, wasn’t very close in the end, with incumbent Mike Karbowski and newcomer Craig Maass coming out on top. Mike Moeller finished third.
- The rest of the council won re-election in uncontested races. I finished with 727 votes to David Bartoshevich’s 919. Ray Navarro and Pat Stoner will represent the 2nd District, and Lisa Pieper and Joe Bukowski will continue to represent the 3rd District.
- Three incumbents — John Haslam, Pat Bordak and Carol Dufek — will return to the South Milwaukee School Board for three more years. They were the only three names on the ballot Tuesday.
- In a further sign of South Milwaukee’s strong Republican leanings in recent elections, Jeff Stone outpolled Chris Abele in the race for Milwaukee County executive, 50.5% to 49.1% — this despite Abele easily winning countywide.
- Additionally, David Prosser easily outdistanced Joanne Kloppenburg, 53.5% to 46.3%, in a state Supreme Court race that was evenly split statewide.
I will close with a thank you to everyone who voted for me on Tuesday. I look forward to serving the residents of the 4th District for two more years and hopefully more, providing a strong and distinct voice for my constituents and delivering new ideas and a fresh perspective to local government.
South Milwaukee Blog 
Actually, I disagree that the results show a Republican leaning in the city. The fact that the Supreme Court race was split almost down the middle shows that there is a definite liberal lean. I arrived at this conclusion by taking a close look at the two candidates. Prosser is a right leaning centrist whose decisions have not always followed a party line. In fact, he recently went on record stating that he questions the Republicans stand on the whole budget / union issue. Kloppenburg, on the other hand is a far leftist with a strong lean against individual property rights and even clerked for Shirley Abrahamson. That 46% went way left suggests a definite leftward lean. If she would have equalled Prosser in distance from center, you would have seen the result in the numbers.
SM Guy: Interesting argument, and sound reasoning. I guess I base my belief in a right-leaning South Milwaukee on the history of the last couple elections, where even underdog conservative candidates (Dan Sebring, Jess Ripp, etc.) fared well here but poorly in most other places.
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