Pierce County voters cast ballots in the Republican and Democratic run-offs for state-wide and federal offices last Tuesday, June 16.
Pierce Countians cast ballots for six Republican runoffs, including nominees for governor and U.S. senator, with local results matching state-wide results in four of the six match-ups.
Pierce County voters preferred Mike Collins for U.S. Senate, Greg Dolezal for Lieutenant Governor, Tim Fleming for Secretary of State and Josh Tolbert for District 5 on the Public Service Commission.
However, local Republicans preferred Burt Jones for Governor and Fred “Bubba” Longgrear for State School Superintendent. Statewide, Rick Jackson won the nomination for governor and Incumbent Richard Woods won the Repubican nomination for state school superintendent.
Pierce County Democrats voted in support of the nominees except for secretary of state and the first district U.S. Congressional seat.
Statewide Democratic nomination winners included Josh McLaurin for lieutenant governor, Penny Brown Reynolds for secretary of state, Keisha Sean Waites for insurance commissioner and Nikki Porcher for labor commissioner.
For First District U.S. representative, Amanda Hollowell won the Demo-cratic nomination, though more Pierce County Democrats voted for Joyce Marie Griggs.
Local Democrats also supported Dana Barrett over Reynolds for secretary of state.
Turnout was a low 16.7 percent as just 2,188 of Pierce County’s 13,079 active, registered voters turned out to vote. There were no local races on the ballot.
Voter turnout was 28.57 percent (3,737 voters) in the May 19 primary.
A super majority of local voters chose Republican ballots (2,082) while only 106 chose Democratic ballots.
The Republican and Democratic slates are now set for the November 3 general election.
Meanwhile, a recount is scheduled for today for the Republican nomination for District 5 on the Public Service Commission.
Fitz Johnson was declared the winner in the May 19 primary, but he only defeated Brandon Martin by about 2,900 votes statewide out of about 776,500 votes cast.
Pierce County voters preferred Martin in the primary.
