WAUKESHA - Waukesha County Supervisor Walter Kolb beat out fellow
incumbent William Mitchell in the District 24 race Tuesday by
roughly a 150-vote margin, the most hotly contested race in the
Election Day reduction of the county board to 25 members.
The election completes the downsizing of the county board from 35
supervisors to 25, which supporters of the change say will make it
run more efficiently. The board approved the change in 2006 after
the Waukesha Taxpayers League petitioned for a countywide referendum
to reduce it to 11 members.
Kolb garnered 1,331 votes (53.4 percent) and Mitchell got 1,155
tallies (46.3 percent). The results are unofficial and County Clerk
Kathy Nickolaus said her office will begin canvassing votes
Thursday.
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