Nonpartisan election proposal sails through

In the last 120 years, Havre City Council has had Republican, Democratic, Progressive and Socialist members.

But no more.

Voters Tuesday voted 1,938 to 577 to hold nonpartisan elections in the future.

That means the people elected in Tuesday's elections will be the last ones o have party labels listed next to their names on the ballot.

City Councilman Andrew Brekke was the supported the proposal, He said the issues that come before City Council are not partisan, and therefore candidates should not be partisan.

It will be easier to attract candidates, he said, if they don't have a political party attached to their name.

There was no organized opposition, just some random candidates from Democrats that Republicans favored nonpartisan elections because they have had a hard time attracting candidates and winning elections in the Democratic city.