Melissa Hammell elected as new Mayor of Lansing

Voters in the city of Lansing elected Melissa Hammell to the office of mayor in a Tuesday, September 14 special election. Listed as the lone candidate on the election ballot, Hammell garnered 156 of the 162 votes cast in the election.

The six remaining votes cast were all write-in individuals. According to the results, four of those write-in votes were for Don Peters, one was for Dave Janzen, and the other - although marked - was left blank. The Allamakee County Auditor’s office reports that all but one of the votes in the election were cast in-person on election day, with that lone other vote cast absentee before election day.

Hammell was sworn into office at the Lansing City Council meeting Monday, September 20  (see Page 8 this week) following the official canvassing of the election results during the Allamakee County Board of Supervisors meeting earler that day. She is replacing Kyle Walleser, who was elected in November 2019 but resigned from the office in June of this year due to a change in his employment no longer allowing him to fulfill the duties of the mayor’s office. Hammell will serve out the remainder of the current four-year mayoral term through the end of the year 2023.