Winners of Humboldt County's GOP primary races last June sailed to victory Tuesday during the 2020 general election in the county. In the only contested races locally, David Lee topped John D. (JD) Myers for Supervisor District 5, which includes all of Lake and Grove townships, the eastern third of Vernon Township and the northern half of Norway Township, along with the city of Dakota City. Lee collected 572 votes to 385 for Myers, 60 percent to 40 percent.
The only other contested race was for County Auditor, where Republican primary winner Trish Erickson captured 69.6 percent of the votes cast with 3,418. Chris Freund (pronounced Friend) gathered 1,258, or 25.6 percent and Cody Lawman gained 226 votes or 4.6 percent.