Conservative incumbent justice David Prosser has been certified the winner of the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court race, in which he was challenged by extreme left-wing and union crony candidate Joanne Kloppenburg. His margin of victory was ultimately more than 7,000 votes.

Wisconsin’s elections board on Monday certified judge David Prosser as the winner of the hotly contested race for the state Supreme Court, handing a victory to conservative activists who flocked to the race as a referendum on Gov. Scott Walker’s law restricting collective bargaining for public sector unions.

Unions and their allies spent millions in an attempt to get back at conservatives (for midterm losses and the union law) by ousting Prosser and replacing him with a union crony. Unfortunately for them, conservatives got involved in the race and fought back, ultimately winning.

After losing the race by more than 7,000 votes, Kloppenburg and her union backers charged that there were widespread irregularities in the reporting, effectively charging that conservatives had cheated. An independent, non-partisan recount by election officials found those charges to be false.

Kloppenburg has until May 31st to decide if she wants to further delay the inevitable by suing to contest the results.