Golden Valley MN results - the two Dem-supported candidates won by a large margin out of a field of 6 serious candidates [View all]

Population 21,300 in 2024 estimated. 1st suburb straight west of Minneapolis. We think of Minneapolis as the first suburb east of Golden Valley, and part of the Greater Golden Valley Metropolitan Area; and of Saint Paul as an outer-ring suburb

It was a pick-two election for two open seats..

https://electionresults.sos.mn.gov/results/Index?ErsElectionId=187&scenario=LocalMunicipality&FipsCode=24308&show=Go
Precincts report: 100% 8 of 8 ## Last Updated: 11/04/25 10:07 PM Voters Registered at 7AM: 16,330
I ranked in order.
The first 2 were DFL-supported (not endorsed because it is a theoretically non-partisan election. All of the candidates are shown on the ballot as "Nonpartisan" ). They got 54.9% of the vote combined.

Tracey Fussy 3,593 30.44%
Chris Queitzsch 2,885 24.45%
Jean Kidd 1,520 12.88%
Andy Johnson 1,517 12.85%
Joanie Clausen 1,139 9.65%
Aaron Black 984 8.34%
----- Non-serious -----
Steve Dent 146 1.24%
WRITE-IN 18 0.15%


Sum of above is 11,802 votes. From above: 16,330 registered voters, population 21,300. That's pretty impressive. This was the only thing on our ballot.

Steve Dent withdrew a month or more ago and asked for people not to vote for him, but it was too late to change the ballot.

Andy Johnson is kinda a right-winger from what I can grok. I've seen Jean Kidd and Aaron Black lawn signs on the same lawns as Andy Johnson lawn signs.

Joanie Clausen is a former council member and has run a number of times unsuccessfully as well, including the last election 2 years or whatever ago (unsuccessfully). Seems kind of controversial to me, has written a number of letters to the local local newspaper (Sun Post). She told me she is a Democrat. She had a lot of lawn signs and name recognition, so I'm surprised to see the 5th place result.

For out-of-staters: DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) is the Democratic party in Minnesota, it is not some wild-eyed offshoot. I changed the title line from "DFL-supported" to "Dem-supported" so as not to confuse and scare out-of-staters.

Now that I think about it, maybe I should have left it as "DFL-supported", probably would have gotten more out-of-state clicks, wondering if this is something like the DSA.

Since the election is "non-partisan", no party "endorses", the term they use is "supported". The Repukes did not support any candidates at least from the campaign literature and some other stuff I've seen. Not officially anyway. Maybe that was intentional, as we're a very blue city.