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How much did your candidate spend in his or her bid for election? Here are the figures for spending; who won and lost; whether or not they had opposition; and whether they were running as a challenger, the incumbent, or in an open seat.

Click on any district number below to see an in-depth analysis of each race, finance information, and lists of contributors for each candidate.

Use the menu to the left to view all sorts of other information and statistics for Dane County elections.


Dane County Races
- Incumbents are listed in Bold
(if no challenger is listed, the incumbent was not opposed)

- Open seats are listed on 

green
The following table is in order of district.  Click to view tables in order of: spending, cost per vote, outcome, or type of race.
Dist Name Spent*  Votes Cost/vote  Outcome
1 Scott Kowalski1
$ 7,727.18 
1070
$ 7.22 
 Lost
Wayne Bigelow1
$ 9,511.16 
1137
$ 8.37 
 Won
2 Judith M. Wilcox
$ - 
838
$ - 
 Won
3 Darold Lowe
$ 1,394.67 
955
$ 1.46 
 Won
4 Scott McDonell
$ - 
466
$ - 
 Won
5 Semmi Pasha $ 1816.50
181

$ 10.04

 Lost
Tom Powell
$ 4,460.88 
412
$ 10.83 
 Won
6 John Hendrick
$ 101.66 
1441
$ 0.07 
 Won
7 Vern Andren
$ 2,385.50 
807
$ 2.96 
 Lost
David J. Blaska
$ 3,682.47 
1319
$ 2.79 
 Won
8 Michelle Staude

$ 8,081.57
295

$ 27.40

 Lost
Echnaton Vedder
$ 5,181.51 
569
$ 9.11 
 Won
9 Moe A. Rahman
$ 925.00 
534
$ 1.73 
 Lost
Ruth Ann Schoer
$ 1,743.49 
1339
$ 1.30 
 Won
10 Karen Cornwell
$ 6,583.51 
1464
$ 4.50 
 Won
Chuck Erickson
$ 8,463.39 
914
$ 9.26 
 Lost
11 Alfred Matano
$ 6,318.48 
1175
$ 5.38 
 Won
Dave Boyd
$ 8,889.88 
1162
$ 7.65 
 Lost
12 Larry Olson
$ 275.00 
899
$ 0.31 
 Won
13 Regina Rhyne
$ 1,749.80 
794
$ 2.20 
 Won
Duane Steinhauer
$ 5,051.88 
719
$ 7.03 
 Lost
14 Gail A. Rutkowski $ 1,809.17** 
609
 $ 2.97**  Won
Mary L. Sara
$ 6,197.46 
532
$ 11.65 
 Lost
15 Dave Schneider
$ 7,102.86 
867
$ 8.19 
 Lost
Andy Olsen
$ 8,996.53 
1008
$ 8.93 
 Won
16 David Gawenda
$ 5,886.18 
1149
$ 5.12 
 Won
Kyle Schwarm
$ 7,138.28 
776
$ 9.20 
 Lost
17 Richard Kiley
$ 6,128.79 
858
$ 7.14 
 Won
Brett Davis
$ 7,835.30 
754
$ 10.39 
 Lost
18 Jim Mohrbacher
$ 1,018.69 
1014
$ 1.00 
 Won
19 Brett Hulsey
$ 1,680.92 
1607
$ 1.05 
 Won
20 Forrest Aguirre
$ 3,227.06 
928
$ 3.48 
 Lost
Robert Fyrst
$ 6,806.63 
1294
$ 5.26 
 Won
21 Dennis Coyier
$ 1,070.58 
620
$ 1.73 
 Lost
David Wiganowsky
$ 6,221.37 
1167
$ 5.33 
 Won
22 Maureen Hoverson

$ 9,535.08
1427

$ 6.68

 Lost
Dennis O'Loughlin
$ 7,051.24 
1789
$ 3.94 
 Won
23 Tom Winchell
$ 3,935.84 
369
$ 10.67 
 Lost
Jim Campbell
$ 5,428.58 
390
$ 13.92 
 Won
24 Bill Graf
$ 6,552.21 
1376
$ 4.76 
 Won
Randy J. Littel
$ 7,093.09 
1064
$ 6.67 
 Lost
25 Sherrie Gruder
$ 9,293.24 
1360
$ 6.83 
 Lost
Eileen Bruskewitz
$ 12,566.25 
1426
$ 8.81 
 Won
26 Mark Opitz
$ 69.56 
919
$ 0.08 
 Won
27 Carlton B. Hamre
$ - 
1472
$ - 
 Won
James E. Daubert
$ 2,828.82 
1217
$ 2.32 
 Lost
28 Vern Wendt
$ 6,388.76 
1386
$ 4.61 
 Won
Kathy Pielsticker
$ 6,922.34 
976
$ 7.09 
 Lost
29 Dave J. Ripp
$ 336.56 
1324
$ 0.25 
 Won
30 Pete Strube
$ 3,534.40 
1064
$ 3.32 
 Lost
Bill Hitzemann
$ 4,365.38 
1313
$ 3.32 
 Won
31 Lyman Anderson
$ 1,764.50 
2422
$ 0.73 
 Won
32 Philip H. Salkin
$ 561.58 
1712
$ 0.33 
 Won
33 Thomas Clauder
$ 328.18 
1083
$ 0.30 
 Won
34 Kevin Kesterson
$ 648.50 
923
$ 0.70 
 Won
35 Allan Long
$ 991.52 
667
$ 1.49 
 Lost
Don Heiliger
$ 4,492.49 
893
$ 5.03 
 Won
36 Helen J. Johnson
$ 637.89 
1374
$ 0.46 
 Won
37 Bob Salov
$ 603.11 
1520
$ 0.40 
 Won
38 J. Michael Blaska
$ - 
1024
$ - 
 Won
39 David Hanneman
$ 336.73 
802
$ 0.42 
 Won
Total
$ 251,729.24
Ave
$ 4.82 

  • Reports were due at the County Clerk's office or postmarked by July 20th. The County Clerk has alerted the district attorney to the candidates who have not filed by now.

  • Not all figures have been audited by the County Clerk's office, so there may be small adjustments as the reports are checked more carefully.
  • 1 The first district incumbent, Judith Pederson, was defeated in the primary, thus both Kowalski and Bigelow are listed as challengers.
  • *  "Spent" only includes how much each candidate spent on his or her own race. Race candidates last spring engaged in a system of funneling money from unchallenged candidates to those in tight races. Such transfers are not included in the total for the candidate who made the transfer to the other candidate. (For example Lyman Anderson, who was unopposed funnelled $4,300 to the campaigns of other conservative candidates, while spending $1,764.50 on his own race, only the $1,764.50 is noted here.) Stay tuned for a special report updating the Legal Laundering many candidates practiced this Spring.
  • **  Rutkowski  had not, as of August 31, filed her final report. Figures are through March 20, roughly two weeks before the end of the campaign.

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