Here is a list of projected winners from Nov. 4 election as of press time. 

FEDERAL RACES:

U.S. Senate: Joni Ernst

U.S. House District 4: Steve King

U.S. House District 3: David Young

U.S. House District 2: Dave Loebsack

U.S. House District 1: Rod Blum

STATE RACES:

Governor: Terry Branstad

State Senate District 23: Herman Quirmbach

State House District 45: Beth Wessel-Kroeschell

State House District 46: Lisa Heddens

Secretary of State: Paul Pate

Auditor: Mary Mosiman

Treasurer: Michael Fitzgerald

Agriculture Secretary: Bill Northey

Attorney General: Tom Miller

COUNTY RACES:

Board of Supervisors: Paul Toot and Rick Sanders

County Recorder: Stacie Herridge

County Attorney: Stephen Holmes

As of 8 p.m. 27.2 percent of registered voters have voted in Story County. 140 students have voted at the precinct in Maple Hall, and 181 votes were cast at the Union Drive Community Center. 

Elliot White, senior in biology, said voting was part of his civic duty, but many don’t follow his lead. 

“All too often you hear people complaining about ‘oh, I don’t like this, I don’t like that,’ but when you actually have a chance to do it, some people just flake out and don’t do it. This is my way of trying to fix things that I see wrong. By voting.”

Even poll watchers said they haven’t seen many students voting, which they said was disappointing.

“They are the ones who are going to be most directly impacted by some of the policies we are going to see enacted here in the coming years,” said Nate Borland, poll watcher at the Memorial Lutheran Church, of students. “If you want to grab hold of your life and grab hold of your surroundings, you have to do something about it. This is something that is easy to do and unfortunately, very few people actually do.”’