Two contested city races will be on Nov. 7 ballot

FORT MADISON – There will be two contested races in the Fort Madison general election on Nov. 7.
The Fort Madison Mayoral race will feature two-time Mayoral candidate Rodney Hoskins, Jerry Reuther, and incumbent Matt Mohrfeld. Fort Madison mayors serve two-year terms.
Mohrfeld defeated Hoskins 823-61 in 2019, and 565-135 in 2021. Hoskins also ran for City Council in 2015 and lost to Chad Cangas 122-32.
Kevin Rink and Jerry Hamelton will square off for the at-large seat that will be on the ballot.
Rink has served the past eight years first being elected in 2015 and has retained his seat for the past four terms. Rink has tinkered with the idea of not running again the last several times his seat has come up on the ballot.
Hamelton has been trying to get a seat on the Fort Madison City Council through election and appointment for the past  four years. He lost to Rink in the 2019 election 790-646 and then has been not been selected to replace a candidate during two different appointments due to early term resignations.