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Votes tallied in primary, judicial races

Votes tallied in primary, judicial races
Jefferson County Election Commissioner Sharon Hardin checks her smartphone as the commission awaits the return of voting equipment from poll workers before the start of Wednesday's meeting at its headquarters on Main Street. The meeting was called to adjudicate provisional and absentee ballots for Tuesday's election. (Pine Bluff Commercial/I.C. Murrell)

These are the final but unofficial tallies from Tuesday’s preferential primary and nonpartisan judicial election in Jefferson County as of 9:40 that evening.

Ten damaged absentee ballots were reconstructed the next morning during a special Jefferson County Election Commission meeting, but they did not change the outcome in either race.

The commissioners also met Wednesday evening to adjudicate any provisional and absentee ballots.

Results will not be certified until March 13, according to Commissioner Carl Watson.

The total of ballots cast in Jefferson County was 9,573, including 67 absentee, 4,322 during early voting and 5,184 on election day.

These results are listed in order of highest to lowest vote totals in Jefferson County. Totals for federal, statewide and judicial races are in parentheses.

An asterisk (*) indicates the winner of the race:

FEDERAL

U.S. Senate (Democrat)

*Hallie Shoffner……………(101,520)

Ethan N. Dunbar……………(28,291)

U.S. Senate (Republican)

*Tom Cotton……………….(230,204)

Jeb Little………………………. (25,867)

Micah Ashby…………………(26,084)

U.S. Congress 4th District (Democrat)

*James Russell III…………..(13,228)

Steven Layne O’Donnell….(11,740)

ARKANSAS STATE RACES

Governor (Democrat)

*Fred Love…………………….(103,933)

Supha Xayprasith-Mays..(24,440)

Secretary of State (Republican)

Bryan Norris………….(91,442)

Kim Hammer………..(89,445)

Cathy Harrison……….(85,552)

Norris and Hammer advance to the March 31 runoff.

Commissioner of State Lands (Republican)

*Cole Jester……………(192,743)

Christian Olson………(74,051)

JEFFERSON COUNTY RACES

County Judge (Democrat)

Efrem B. Neely…………….2,076

Gerald L. Robinson……..1,776

Eric Walden Jr……………..1,711

Jeff Edwards………………..1,530

Michael J. Turley…………….521

Neely and Robinson advance to the March 31 runoff.

County Sheriff (Democrat)

*Lafayette Woods Jr…….4,882

Mark Cannon……………..2,547

County Clerk (Democrat)

*Shawndra Taggart…….4,448

Rosetta Giddens………….3,014

County Circuit Clerk

*Connie Compton……….3,847

Barbara A. Collins………3,480

Assessor (Democrat)

*Gloria Tillman………….4,884

Bruce White Jr…………….2,593

Coroner (Democrat)

*Chad Kelley……………….3,865

Jamal Gordon……………..3,658

Justice of the Peace District 1 (Democrat)

Jackie Tillmon……………….321

Alfred Carroll………………..263

Deshaun Eans…………………99

Tillmon and Carroll advance to the March 31 runoff.

Justice of the Peace District 2 (Democrat)

*Reginald Adams…………..408

Leo Smith………………………243

Justice of the Peace District 3 (Democrat)

*Reginald Johnson………..260

Joseph J. O’Neal III………..256

Justice of the Peace District 4 (Democrat)

*Oscar Bullard Jr……………681

Patricia Royal Johnson…..302

Justice of the Peace District 5 (Democrat)

*Ivan Whitfield………………511

Jimmy L. Fisher Sr………….320

Justice of the Peace District 6 (Democrat)

*Randy Green………………..491

Glen Brown Sr……………….292

Justice of the Peace District 9 (Democrat)

*George H. Barnes Sr……..326

Cedric Jackson……………….315

Justice of the Peace District 13 (Democrat)

*Brenda Bishop Gaddy…..430

Sherman Ferguson…………356

PINE BLUFF CITY RACES

Council Member Ward 3

*Jeffrey Neal………………….983

Lanette R. Frazier………….580

Council Member Ward 4

*Steven Mays Sr…………….630

Nathaniel Baker…………….220

ARKANSAS STATE JUDICIAL RACES

Supreme Court Associate Justice Position 3

*Nick Bronni………….(217,178)

John Adams………….(179,449)

Prosecuting Attorney, 11th West Circuit

Karres Manning-Center…….(3,303)

Evelyn Moorehead….. (3,225)

Joe West…………………..(2,718)

Mircha King……………….(852)

Manning-Center and Moorehead advance to the Nov. 3 runoff.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS

Pine Bluff School District Zone 2

*Arnold Robertson Jr……..568

LozAnne Calhoun…………292