UPDATE (10 a.m.) — Henry County Auditor Robin Detrick has confirmed that the discrepancy in the New London School Board election results was due to a data entry error at the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office.
According to Detrick, communication with the Secretary of State’s Office Wednesday morning clarified that the state office had incorrectly entered the New London School Board results on the Iowa election website. The mistake has since been corrected, and the official online results now reflect the accurate numbers as originally submitted by Henry County.
Henry County’s official totals for the Director At-Large race are as follows:
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Kyle Helmerson – 367 votes (41.10%) ✅
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Jessica Boyer – 321 votes (35.96%) ✅
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Josh Housman – 205 votes (22.96%)
Based on these results, Helmerson and Boyer have been elected to the New London School Board.
Detrick emphasized that the county’s results were accurate from the beginning and that the issue stemmed from the state’s data entry process, not local reporting.
KILJ News will continue to monitor and report any additional updates related to Tuesday’s election results.