BREAKING NEWS: Dornink unseats Sparks in Senate race

A local senate district has flipped to GOP after Gene Dornink of Hayfield unseated veteran DFL Senator Dan Sparks of Austin.
In the Minnesota District 27 race, Dornink appears to have cruised to an easy victory gaining 14,617 votes or 53% compared to 11,015 or 40% for Sparks in Tuesday’s general election.
The race was hotly contested by both parties.
District 27 encompasses southern Dodge County, City of Blooming Prairie and most of Freeborn and Mower counties.
Sparks is serving his fifth term as senator having been first elected in 2002.