Des Moines City Council incumbents win re-election

Here's a roundup of Des Moines City Council races, according to unofficial results from the Polk County Auditor as of Wednesday morning.

State of play: All three incumbents easily won re-election with the majority of votes.

• Plus, former City Councilperson Chris Coleman was elected to fill the remaining two years of the Ward 1 term that remains following Indira Sheumaker's resignation in August after months of unexplained absences from council meetings.

Ward 1

• ✅ Chris Coleman: 3,539 (42.28%)
• Rob Barron: 2,743 (32.77%)
• Kathy Hellstern: 598 (7.14%)
• RJ Miller: 576 (6.88%)
• Kimberly Strope-Boggus: 361 (4.31%)
• Rose Marie Smith: 353 (4.22%)
• Dennis McCullough: 169 (2.02%)

Ward 2

• ✅ Linda Westergaard: 2,857 (55.46%)
• Chelsea Lepley: 2,268 (44.03%)

Ward 4

• ✅ Joe Gatto: 2,614 (64.48%)
• Jason Benell: 973 (24%)
• Justin Torres: 451 (11.12%)

At large

• ✅ Carl Voss: 19,664 (73.05%)
• AJ Drew: 6,871 (25.90%)