Primary Election Results 2018
Election results from the 2018 primary election.
Election results from the 2018 primary election.
Cornhusker Boys State is randomly divided into two political parties, Nationalists and Federalists. The two parties start with a blank platform. Party members work to adopt “planks” of the platform at their conventions. Following the party conventions, candidates for various state offices offered remarks and answered questions from thier fellow citizens. The primary election, for everything except Governor, will be held on Tuesday June 5th.
By: Ezekeial Aleo
Tuesday morning was the beginning of the Nationalist Party convention. Topics ranging from GMOs to education reform were discussed. The most heated topics were GMOs and the Second Amendment. In the end, out of the five topics discussed, three remained the same, one was amended, and the other was completely removed.
After the platform was discussed, possible party candidates gave their speeches on the execution of the platform. The position of Lt. Governor was sought after by six candidates who all gave amazing speeches, but, in the end, Kevin Downs won. For the position of Secretary of State there were eight potential candidates, but only Jose Vazquez won. The race for Attorney General consisted of seven Candidates–all who showed great promise. Issac Buitron ultimately rose to the top to take the position. There were three potential Auditors with Nathan Weidner taking the position. Out of eight candidates the position of Treasurer went to Kaleb Kindler. While Public Service Commissioner may have been the last position, it was by no means unimportant with six candidates running, and Jarred Baumert, Issac Stallbaumer, Jacob French, Paxton Myers, and Garett Savick all winning.
The results of the primary election are as follows:
State Ticket
Lieutenant Governor
National – Dylan France
Federal – John Stuart
Secretary of State
National – Adam Mulin
Federal – Edward Li
State Treasurer
National – Connor Cross
Federal – Austin Hillman
State Auditor
National – Joe Taylor
Federal – Andrew Bauer
Attorney General
National – Gage Hamilton Bellamy
Federal – Andrew Stone
Public Service Commissioner
National – Matthew Ferguson
National – Justin Moore’
National – Chris Peterson
National – Stuart B. Rohr
National – Paul A. Swope
Federal – Dalton Anderson
Federal – Tanner Johnson
Federal – Zach Martin
Federal – Wyatt J. McLeod
Federal – Matthew Schwab
Washington County
County Sheriff
National – Adam C. Atkinson
Federal – Ryan Jurgenson
County Attorney
National – Kendall Dickson
Federal – Hunter Coats
County Clerk
National – Jason Gutz
Federal – Jared Shipp
Clerk of the District Court
National – Zach Kitten
Federal – Wyatt Peterson
National – Caleb Krohn
Federal – Alex Teano
County Treasurer
National – Leo Van Horn
Federal – Tanner Magid
Washington County Non-Political
Members of State Board of Education
Brice Barney
Alan Lee
Jacob Lunkwitz
Bryce Sahs
Zach Whipps
Bryce Zweiner
County Judge
Tyler Connelly
Seth Kirkegaard
Public Defender
Kadin Copeland
Travis Schwartz
Lincoln County
County Sheriff
National – Ben Miles
Federal – Dylan Brockhaus
County Attorney
National – Ryly Dugan
Federal – Ryker Dischler
County Clerk
National – Collin Swedberg
Federal – Jeremiah Dickinson
Clerk of the District Court
National – Brandon Schroeder
Federal – William Kusant
National – Jared Stauffer
Federal – Benjamin A. Murphy
County Treasurer
Federal – Caleb Eckel
National – Riley Coy
Lincoln County Non-Political
Members of State Board of Education
Austin Diedrichsen
Cadet Fowler
Joshua Garcia
Rusty D. Hermsmeyer
Payton Stone
Matt Sweet
County Judge
Cade Kalkowski
Justice Palmer
Public Defender
Jorge Adame
Cody Mueller
Results from the gubernatorial primary are in! The following candidates will be on the general election ticket in tomorrow’s election.
Jacob Lambert (N)
Walter Paul (F)
These two candidates will square off for the first time tonight in their gubernatorial town hall debate.
Nationalist Candidate Jacob Lambert
Federalist Candidate Walter Paul