Habersham County had a lower than expected voter turnout for Tuesday’s primary election. Election Superintendent Laurel Ellison had predicted turnout might reach as high as 50% given the large number of local races on the ballot. But just over 40% of the county’s 18,621 active registered voters participated.
In Habersham County 7,497 votes were cast between May 2 and May 24. The majority of those votes – 4,347 – were cast early while 3,150 voters showed up at the polls during Tuesday’s general primary election.
READ: Two incumbents ousted in Habersham GOP primary
Unofficial complete results for Habersham County are as follows:
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
BOARD OF EDUATION DISTRICT 1
Don Corbett (I) – 2784 votes | 42.07%
Doug Westmoreland – 3834 votes | 57.93%
BOARD OF EDUCATION DISTRICT 2
Robert Barron (I) – 5434 votes | 100%
CHIEF MAGISTRATE
Gerald Johnson (I) – 5085 votes | 77.08%
Souvanh P. Touralack – 1512 votes | 22.92%
CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT
Joan Jones – 2056 votes | 30.60%
David Wall (I) – 4662 votes | 69.40%
COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT 1
Stacy Hall – 3917 votes | 59.22%
Sonny James (I) – 2697 votes | 40.78%
COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT 4
Natalie Crawford (I) – 5472 votes | 100%
COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT 5
George Locke Arnold -1491 votes | 23.04%
Dale Green – 1244 votes | 19.23%
Ed Nichols (I) – 3735 votes | 57.73%
CORONER
Kasey McEntire (I) – 5881 votes | 100%
PROBATE JUDGE
Lorne Cragg – 1525 votes | 22.88%
William J McFarlin – 1512 votes | 22.68%
Pam Wooley (I) – 3629 votes | 54.44%
SHERIFF
Tonya Elrod – 1719 votes | 24.54%
Chad Mealor – 659 votes | 9.41%
Joey Terrell (I) – 4626 votes | 66.05%
SOLICITOR
Bill Oliver (I) – 5692 votes | 100%
TAX COMMISSIONER
June Black (I) – 5996 votes | 100%
MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY
George Christian (I) – 4297 votes | 66.88%
Bruce Russell, Jr. – 2128 votes | 33.12%
(Christian won circuit-wide with 60.1%)
STATE SENATOR, DISTRICT 50
Roy Benifield – 2022 votes | 30.85%
John Wilkinson (I) – 4533 votes | 69.15%
(Wilkinson won districtwide with 69.63%
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 10
Terry Rogers (I) – 4285 votes | 100%
STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 28
Dan Gasaway (I) – 1,326 votes | 100%
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 9
Paul Broun – 1945 votes | 28.60%
Doug Collins (I) – 3791 votes | 55.75%
Roger Fitzpatrick – 758 votes | 11.15%
Bernie Fontaine – 148 votes | 2.18%
Mike Scupin – 158 votes | 2.32%
(Collins won districtwide with 61.27%)
U.S. SENATE
Mary Kay Bacallao – 736 votes | 11%
Derrick Grayson – 895 votes | 13.38%
Johnny Isakson (I) – 5057 votes | 75.61%
(Isakson won statewide with 77.4%)
PSC, DISTRICT 2
Kellie Pollard Austin- 889 votes | 13.99%
Tim Echols (I) – 4549 votes | 71.57%
Michelle Miller- 918 votes | 14.44%
(Echols won districtwide with 68.91%)
REPUBLICAN PARTY QUESTION:
Should Georgia parents be able to use tax dollars to pay for public, private, virtual or home school. (“Should Georgia empower parents with the right to use the tax dollars allocated for the education of their children, allowing them the freedom to choose among public, private, virtual and home schools?”)
Yes 5150 votes | 74.99%
No 1718 votes | 25.01%
(Approved statewide by 74.57% of Republican voters)
NOTE: Ballot questions do not directly affect state law, although parties use these questions to measure public opinion on an issue and possibly guide them in writing future bills.
NONPARTISAN PRIMARY
STATE COURT JUDGE
Steven Campbell (I) – 5035 votes | 70.98%
Cadman Robb Kiker – 2059 votes | 29.02%
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT
David Nahmias (I) – 5519 votes | 99.17%
Write-in 46 votes | .83%
(Nahmias received 746,045 votes statewide)
JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
Anne Elizabeth Barnes – 5572 votes | 99.41%
Write-in – 33 votes | .59%
(Barnes received 753,440 votes statewide)
JUDGE COURT OF APPEALS
Chris McFadden (I) – 5563 votes | 99.57%
Write-in – 24 votes | .43%
(McFadden received 745,158 votes statewide)
MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT SUPERIOR COURT
Bobby Chan Caudell (I) – 5965 votes | 99.58%
Write-in – 25 votes | .42%
(Caudell received 12,848 votes circuit-wide)
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
U.S. SENATE
Jim Barksdale – 147 votes | 56.32%
Cheryl Copeland – 106 votes | 40.61%
John F. Coyne III – 8 votes | 3.07%
(Barksdale won with 53.71%)
DEMOCRATIC PARTY QUESTIONS:
1. Should Georgia expand Medicaid? (Ballot wording: “Should Georgia invest less than 1 percent of its annual budget to provide healthcare to 500,000 low-income citizens and military veterans by expanding Medicaid?”)
YES 279 votes | 85.58%
NO 47 votes | 14.42%
(Approved statewide by 83.96% of Democratic voters)
2. Should Georgia guarantee paid family leave? (Ballot wording: “Should Georgia guarantee paid family leave to include pregnancy, serious illness, care of a famly member with a serious health condition or care for a newborn, newly adopted child or newly placed foster child?”)
YES 276 votes | 83.89%
NO 53 votes | 16.11%
(Approved statewide by 88.57% of Democratic voters)
3. Should rivers and streams be protected by “natural vegetative buffers”? (Ballot wording: “Should private property on rivers and streams be protected by natural vegetative buffers to ensure that Georgia’s waters are swimmable, drinkable and fishable?”
YES 290 votes | 87.24%
NO 37 | 11.31%
(Approved statewide by 87.24% of Democratic voters)
4. Should Georgians be automatically registered as voters when you get a driver’s license? (Ballot wording: “Should Georgia automatically register to vote all legal and permanent residents upon issuance of a driver’s license or state-issued ID which includes an opt-out provision?”
YES 263 votes | 80.92%
NO 62 votes | 19.08%
(Approved statewide by 79.55% of Democratic voters)
5. Should the Governor be allowed to take over poor performing schools? (Ballot wording: “Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow an appointee of the Governor to take over local school operation, school buildings, and control of all federal, state and local funding if a school has low scores (as chosen by the Governor) on standardized tests or for any other reason a future Legislature may allow?”)
YES 93 votes | 28.88%
NO 229 votes | 71.12%
6. Should Medicaid be expanded? (Ballot wording: “Should Medicaid be expanded in Georgia to allow over 300,000 fellow Georgians to receive medical care?”)
YES 275 votes | 84.1%
NO 52 votes | 15.9%
NOTE: None of the ballot questions will directly affect state law, although parties use those questions to measure public opinion on an issue and possibly guide them in writing future bills.
CLARKESVILLE SPECIAL CITY ELECTION
CITY COUNCIL, P1
T.C. Evans – 193 votes | 61.66%
B. Kilgore – 120 votes | 38.34%
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