Wyoming and American citizens traveled to the voting polls on Tuesday, Nov. 6, cast their votes in the 2018 midterm election.

Nationally, this was big in the news and one of the most important elections in the eyes of many American citizens. Before the election, the Republican Party held the majority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. A blue-wave was being encouraged by Democratic politicians and voters; the goal for them was to gain majority in the House and Senate, but with the House being the biggest priority.

After ballots were counted it was in: the Democratic Party gained the majority of seats in the House, holding 225 seats while the Republican Party holds 197. The Democratic Party wasn’t as successful in the Senate race, only holding 44 seats while the Republican Party holds 51 seats and other parties hold two.

Wyoming citizens had the opportunity to vote for Federal positions including the representative and one of the two senators. Republican Liz Cheney was re-elected to another term was the Wyoming U.S. representative. John Barrasso, Republican Party, was also re=elected to another term, as a Wyoming U.S. senator.

In the Wyoming gubernatorial election, Republican Mark Gordon was chosen as the newest governor of Wyoming.

RJ Kost, Park County School District No. 1’s previous assistant superintendent, was elected to hold the position of state senator. State House positions are also now held by Dan Laursen, Sandy Newsome, Jamie Flitner and David Northrup.

For City of Powell positions, John Wetzel maintains his position as Mayor. City Council members elected were Timothy Sapp, Scott Mangold and PHS staff member Steve Lensegrav.

“I thought it would be a neat idea to see how the city works from an administrative standpoint as well to broaden my point of view or spectrum of what I can do,” said Mr. Lensegrav, who holds an Administration Masters and hopes to apply it his City Council position.

For the Powell School, winners were Trace Paul, Lillian Brazelton, Greg Borcher and Donald Hansen.

“I have an in to express my concerns for the school and talk to him about it and he can cure it then bring it to the board and say ‘Hey this is an issue we have at school,’ and it’s helped,” Greg Borcher’s daughter senior Kara Borcher said.

Throughout the snowy day over 11,000 Park County citizens got out and cast their ballots, many being returning voters and a good handful of new voters too.

“Voting was one of the most important things I wanted to do when I turned 18 because it’s nice to have your voice heard,” new voter Ariana Rodriguez said.