Webster County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Austin V. Hayek (Republican) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Supervisor District 1.

Incumbent Republican Austin Hayek is unopposed, seeking his second term; no Democrat is on the ballot in this district. He received 523 votes in the June 2, 2026 primary. The district includes northeastern Fort Dodge, Badger, Vincent, Duncombe, the portion of Stratford that is in Webster County, and rural areas in northeastern and eastern Webster County.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Mark William Campbell (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Supervisor District 2.

Democrat Mark William Campbell won his party's June 2, 2026 primary outright with 457 votes (no opponent), per the county's official primary results; the seat is open (incumbent Republican Nathan Montgomery did not file for re-election, per the county's official Board of Supervisors roster). No Republican candidate filed. On the Republican primary ballot, write-in votes were scattered: the largest single named write-in total was 12 votes for a person recorded as "Mark Campbell," out of 19 total Republican write-in votes cast for the office (the balance went to other named write-ins, including 2 votes each for Keith Dencklau and Aaron Newell). This agent could not confirm from an official county document whether that write-in vote met Iowa's statutory threshold for nominating a candidate whose party fielded no filed candidate (Iowa Code section 43.66), whether "Mark Campbell" is the same person as Democratic nominee Mark William Campbell, or whether any Republican nominee was certified for this seat. No Republican candidate is listed here; Webster County's certified November 3, 2026 candidate list should be checked before publishing a Republican name.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Robert D. Thode (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Supervisor District 3.

Incumbent Democrat Robert D. Thode (known locally as Bob Thode), the sitting District 3 supervisor per the county's official Board of Supervisors roster, won his party's June 2, 2026 primary outright with 598 votes (no opponent), per the county's official primary results. No Republican candidate filed. On the Republican primary ballot, write-in votes were scattered among several names with no clear leader: a generic "Write-in" line recorded 3 votes, and named write-ins included 2 votes for a person recorded as "Robert Thode" and 1 vote each for Laura Eastwood, Mark Campbell, Aaron Mchone and Keith Dencklau. This agent could not confirm from an official county document whether any of these met Iowa's statutory write-in nomination threshold (Iowa Code section 43.66) or whether a Republican nominee was certified for this seat. No Republican candidate is listed here; Webster County's certified November 3, 2026 candidate list should be checked before publishing a Republican name.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Niki Conrad (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Supervisor District 4.

Incumbent Democrat Niki Conrad is unopposed, seeking her third term; no Republican is on the ballot in this district. She received 310 votes in the June 2, 2026 primary. The district includes central and northern parts of Fort Dodge.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Nick Carlson (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Supervisor District 5.

Democrat Nick Carlson won his party's June 2, 2026 primary outright with 368 votes (no opponent), per the county's official primary results; the seat is open (incumbent Republican John Cochrane did not file for re-election, per the county's official Board of Supervisors roster). No Republican candidate filed. On the Republican primary ballot, write-in votes were scattered across roughly a dozen different names with one vote each (Roger Kruger, Terry Moehnke, James Guldenptening, Elizabeth Stoebe, Keith Dencklau, Jean M. Olson, Charles E. Peterson, Jarred Holms, Marvin Smith IV, Joe Condon, John M. Foley, Dana Hotz, Mark Campbell, May Helvik, Scott Deuel) alongside 2 votes for a person recorded as "Nick Carlson" -- a pattern consistent with a handful of Republican primary voters writing in essentially random names rather than an organized write-in campaign. This agent could not confirm from an official county document that any write-in met Iowa's statutory nomination threshold (Iowa Code section 43.66) or that a Republican nominee was certified for this seat. No Republican candidate is listed here; Webster County's certified November 3, 2026 candidate list should be checked before publishing a Republican name.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Doreen Pliner (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Auditor.

Open seat: sitting Auditor Krystal Lloyd did not file for re-election (the Webster County Board of Supervisors separately appointed her interim Auditor on July 28, 2026 under Iowa Code section 69.14A, pending the November 3, 2026 election, per the board's official meeting minutes). Democrat Doreen Pliner won her party's June 2, 2026 primary outright with 2,570 votes (no opponent), per the county's official primary results. No Republican candidate filed. On the Republican primary ballot, a generic "Write-in" line recorded 51 votes, of which 50 were credited by name to a person recorded as "Doreen Pliner" -- the identical name to the Democratic nominee, and a much more concentrated result than the county's other write-in contests this cycle. This agent could not confirm from an official county document whether this concentrated write-in vote met Iowa's statutory nomination threshold (Iowa Code section 43.66), whether the Republican write-in "Doreen Pliner" is the same person as the Democratic nominee, or whether a Republican nominee was certified for this seat. No Republican candidate is listed here; Webster County's certified November 3, 2026 candidate list should be checked before publishing a second line for this office.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Darren D. Driscoll (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Attorney.

Incumbent Democrat Darren Driscoll is unopposed, with no primary opponent and no general-election opponent; no Republican is on the ballot for this office. He received 1,129 votes in the June 2, 2026 primary. He was appointed county attorney in February 2018 to replace Jennifer Benson, won his first term in the November 2018 general election, and was reelected in 2022.

Unopposed: still on your ballot.

Brenda Angstrom (Democratic) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Treasurer.

Incumbent Democrat Brenda Angstrom is unopposed, with no primary opponent and no general-election opponent; no Republican is on the ballot for this office. She received 1,161 votes in the June 2, 2026 primary and is seeking her third term.

Courtney Bender Balkenende (Democratic) and Tina Eldal (Republican) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Recorder.

The only contested Webster County courthouse race on the November 2026 ballot. Democrat Courtney Bender Balkenende, appointed to the post in July 2025 to replace Lindsay Laufersweiler and now seeking her first full term, ran unopposed in the Democratic primary with 1,133 votes. Republican Tina Eldal, a Deputy Auditor, ran unopposed in the Republican primary with 1,581 votes. The two face off in the November 3, 2026 general election.

Luke M. Fleener (Republican) and Tony Walter (Democratic) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Webster County Sheriff.

Incumbent Republican Sheriff Luke M. Fleener, who has served 29 years with the Webster County Sheriff's Office, won his party's June 2, 2026 primary outright with 2,385 votes, per the county's official certified primary results and the Sheriff's Office roster page. Democrat Tony Walter won a two-way primary over Trevir Michehl, 1,372 votes (51.2%) to 1,305 (48.8%), per the county's official certified primary results.