(Des Moines, IA) -- Connie Boesen has been elected mayor of Des Moines. Boesen won the race with 48% of the vote. Councilmember Josh Mandelbaum came in second with 45%.
Boesen will succeed long time mayor Frank Cownie.
Other candidates Denver Foote and Christopher William Von Arx finished with less than four-percent of the vote each.
Boesen served on the Des Moines School Board from 2003-2017 and has served on the Des Moines City Council since 2018 as an At-Large Councilmember. That seat will now be filled through a special election.
Ward 1 voters elected former councilmember Chris Coleman back to the Des Moines City Council. He replaces Indira Schumacher, who resigned from the council earlier this year after failing to attend meetings for several months. Coleman will serve out the rest of her term, which ends in January.
Other elected to the Des Moines City Council include: Linda Westergaard, Joe Gatto, and Carl Voss.