2005 American Fork Primary Election Returns

by David Rodeback
October 4, 2005


Here are complete election returns for American Fork candidates in today's municipal primary election. In each case, the primary narrows the field to two candidates per available seat. Within each race, candidates are listed by descending order of votes received. The candidates advancing to the November 8 general election are in bold.

Candidate Votes Incumbent?

MAYORAL CANDIDATES
Heber M. Thompson 1376
Shirl Don LeBaron 515 (City Council)
George E. Brown, Jr. 317

CANDIDATES FOR TWO 4-YR CITY COUNCIL TERMS
Terry V. Fox 1017
Jimmie Darrell Cates 848 incumbent
Heidi K. Rodeback 782
Juel Andersen Belmont 747 incumbent
Harold M. Smith 297
Rulon S. Jensen 148
Lowell Magneson 109
Robert John Palfreyman 101
Andreas Dobmann 87

CANDIDATES FOR ONE 2-YR CITY COUNCIL TERMS
Dale O. Gunther 1228
Marc J. Ellison 354
Colin Thomas Strasburg 179
Karl Peterson 166

2236 of 12,859 registered voters cast ballots today, or 17.4 percent. This is about as expected, perhaps a shade low, for a municipal primary which includes a mayoral election. A turnout between 35 and 40 percent may be expected in November.