The 2008 operating, bond and capital facilities results statewide show 22 districts passing at least one operating levy question Tuesday.

Nineteen failed.

According to the Minnesota School Boards Association, seven of 13 bond and capital facilities projects (54 percent) were approved.

In total, 17 districts passed every referenda question and five districts had split results.

For the 13 districts seeking bond and capital facilities projects, seven were approved (54 percent) and six failed, according to the MSBA.

The Blooming Prairie school district was one of the districts registering a failure on Election Day.

Blooming Prairie had a two-question operating levy referendum issue.

If the first question failed, the second question was a moot point.

On Tuesday, the first questioned failed by an 802 “yes” to 1,491 “no

vote count.

Barry Olson, Blooming Prairie’s superintendent of public schools, said it was a disappointment.

“The school board will have to take a hard look at the budget and decide what needs to be done,” Olson said.

“Anything else is premature at this point,” the superintendent said.

Elsewhere around Mower County, results in school board elections included:

Grand Meadow: Challenger Judy Thorsen, 665; challenger Jim Blomgren, 646; and incumbent Curt Petzel, 590, won election to four-year terms on the Grand Meadow school board.

Hayfield’s school district touches three different counties: Dodge, Olmsted and Mower.

In Tuesday’s election, a write-in campaign was waged among the candidates.

Winning seats on the Hayfield school board for four-year terms were three incumbents: Colleen Moe, 1,675; Kent Stiner, 1,671; Kathy Hegna-Zelinske, 1,551 votes.

Winning a two-year term on the Hayfield school board was write-in candidate Craig Pesch.

He received 113 of 348 write-in votes cast and agreed to accept the two-year term on the Hayfield school board.

The Hayfield Board of Education has seven members.

Lyle voters elected three newcomers to the school board without opposition.

The winners were Scott Nelson, 466; Jessie Meyer, 404; and Sandra King, 283.

Daniel King received 279 votes in a losing cause.

Kim Bruggeman won re-election to the Southland school board with 1,366 votes.

Also winning election were newcomers Diane Klingfus, 1,283, and Paul Kuehneman, 1,206 votes.