Davenport, Durant, Wapello, DeWitt voters say ‘yes’ to schools

Tuesday was Election Day in Iowa.

Several Iowa school districts had elections for funding measures on the ballot Tuesday.

Your Local Election Headquarters has the latest on the returns.

In Davenport, voters were asked to approve a revenue purpose statement.
That passed with 73 percent saying yes.

In Durant, a general schools obligation bond was up for consideration and that was approved 54 percent to 46 percent.

Also in Durant, voters were asked to approve a schools levy and that issue prevailed by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent.

There was a general obligation bond on the ballot in the Calamus-Wheatland School Distict, that failed by a wide margin, with 79 percent saying no.

A 10-year levy in the Northeast School District passed with 57 percent of the vote.

In the Central DeWitt School District, a revenue purposed statement passed with 63 percent of the vote. The 10-year levy up for consideration there also passed with a little tighter margin of 56 percent to 44 percent.

Finally, a revenue purpose statement up for a vote in Wapello passed overwhelmingly with 88 percent.