Glen Murray and Joe Southern came out with the most votes in the McClain County Commissioner race last Tuesday.
Murray, the incumbent, will serve in District 1 and Southern will serve in District 3. Southern takes the place of the retiring Terry Daniel.
No Democrats filed for the office of McClain County Commissioner, so the winners of the Primary Election are the winners of the office, with no General Election necessary.
Murray was on the Republican Primary Election ballot with Terry Dwaine Hillis, Jr. Murray had 1,185 votes to Hillis’s 429. Southern won the District 3 seat with 1,076 votes, compared to Scott Carroll’s 850.
Also on the ballot for Selah community residents was the question of whether to incorporate as a town, or not. The community overwhelmingly said yes to incorporation by a vote of 25 yes votes to only one no vote. Selah will become McClain County’s newest incorporated community.
In other local election results, incumbent Jonathan Wilk, of Goldsby, beat Mike Fullerton, of Newcastle, in the State House District 20 Republican primary, winning 68.80% of the vote. Wilk had 3,487 votes to Fullerton’s 1,581 votes. Wilk will now face Democrat Chris May of Noble in the General Election.
Republican Tom Cole retained the Republican nomination for United States Representative District 4 with 71.12% of the vote, or 52,694 votes. Mitchell Jacob won outright the Democrat nomination for United States Representative District 4 with 54.44% of the vote, or 33,485 votes. He beat Jeff Pixley, who had 15,257 votes. Cole and Jacob will be on the ballot for the General Election.
Other results were: REPUBLICANS
In the Republican race for Governor, Gentner Drummond and Mike Mazzei will go into a runoff election in August. Drummond had 105,787 votes to Mazzei’s 104,629.
T.W. Shannon won the Republican race for Lieutenant Governor outright garnering 53.76% of the vote with 209,299 total votes.
Republican Jon Echols beat Jeff Starling in the Republican race for Attorney General with 55% of the vote on 207,744 votes. Republican Cindy Byrd had 61.66% of the votes over incumbent Todd Russ. She had 232,670 votes to Russ’s 144,705.
In the Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction race, Robert Franklin and James Taylor had the most votes and will go to a runoff in August. Franklin had 84,374 and Taylor had 73,480.
Republican Commissioner of Labor candidates Kevin West and John Pfeiffer will go to the August runoff election. West had 137,212 votes and Pfeiffer had 129,424.
Insurance Commissioner candidates for the Republican race going to a runoff in August are Bob Sullivan, who had 122,761 votes, and Marty L. Quinn, with 101,710 votes.
Brad Boles won the Republican nomination for Corporation Commissioner against Justin Hornback with 55.27% of the vote, or 177,325 votes. Hornback had 161,776.
Former Republican Congressman Kevin Hern won the Republican nomination for United States Senator with 69.76% of the vote, or 267,115 votes.
DEMOCRATS
On the Democrat ticket in last week’s Oklahoma Primary Election Cyndi Munson garnered 74.93% of the vote to be the nominee for Governor in the General Election in November. She had 129,152 votes to the next competitor, Connie Johnson, who had 38,393 votes.
The Democrat candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction is Jennettie Marshall. She had 57.69% of the vote or 97,822 votes. Craig McCoy had 71,754 votes.
Winning the Democrat nomination for Corporation Commissioner with 70% of the votes is Rhonda Eastman.
In the Democrat Primary Election for United States Senator, N’Kiyla Jasmine Thomas was the lead vote getter with 76,271. Next was Jim Priest with 40,282. No one had the 50% needed to earn the Democrat nomination so these two will be in the August Runoff Primary Election.
