Just after 9 p.m., St. Cloud reported all eight of its precincts, naming a winner in two races and a run-off in the third.

Mayor Rebecca Borders is holding onto her seat with 65.6 percent of the vote to Jarom Fertic’s 34.4 percent.

“I appreciate the citizens having such a vote of confidence in me to vote the way they did,” she said, adding she is focused on changing or improving impact fees to help current and future businesses plus she still wants to see a farmers market open in the city. “We have a lot of irons in the fire.”

Just over 9,000 voters picked Borders over Fertic, who earned 4,722 votes.

For St. Cloud City Council Seat 2, Jeff Rinehart has 54.93 percent (6,983 voters) of the vote to Ron Caswell’s 45.07 percent (5,729 voters).

Rinehart was unavailable for comment tonight.

Seat 3 will head to a run-off in December between incumbent Russell Holmes and former councilman Jay Polachek.

To outright win the seat, the candidate needed 50 percent plus one vote. Holmes had the lead with 38.85 percent (4,929 votes) of the vote while Polachek was slightly behind with 33.75 percent (4,278 votes).

Polachek knows he has his work cut out for him to get voters to the polls again in December for the run-off but plans to get back on the campaign trail tomorrow with 100 percent commitment.

“The voters of St. Cloud spoke loud and clear tonight. They want a smaller government, someone who is not a rubber stamp and someone who is proactive and I’m that person,” he said.

Holmes was unavailable for comment tonight.

The third candidate, Cecil “Pete” Jones earned 27.43 percent (3,480 votes) of the vote.