On the road
I'm the speaker at a transportation conference over in Mineola, Texas today, so I'll be away from the site until tonight. A couple of late night developments:
• In House District 58, the late boxes favored LJ Bryant, who'll face Jody Dickinson in a June 10 runoff.
• The results for House District 49 weren't vailable until after 2:00 a.m., and Keith Williams won that primary and will face Jonathan Dismang in the fall. The other late returns were from ther 17th Judicial District, where Mark Derrick won the circuit judge position over Tom Hughes.
• Two legislative incumbents were defeated: Barbara Nix defeated Lamont Cornwell in House District 28, and Joyce Elliott defeated Irma Hunter Brown in Senate District 33. The last incumbents to be defeated in the Legislature that I can remember were in 2002 (David Rackley defeated by Jeff Wood and Terry McMellon defeated by Shirley Walters). Court of Appeals Judge Wendell Griffen was also defeated last night by 6th Judicial District Circuit Judge Rita Gruber. All runoffs will take place on June 10, except for the judicial runoffs, which will be decided on the November ballot.
• The final results from the Benton County precincts in the Courtney Henry/Ron Williams judicial race came in after 2:00, and Henry maintained a 2-1 margin with 100% reporting. She might be as strong a statewide candidate an anyone in Arkansas after that showing.
There were several other interesting and close races -- scroll down for all the results. Here are today's front pages:
• In House District 58, the late boxes favored LJ Bryant, who'll face Jody Dickinson in a June 10 runoff.
• The results for House District 49 weren't vailable until after 2:00 a.m., and Keith Williams won that primary and will face Jonathan Dismang in the fall. The other late returns were from ther 17th Judicial District, where Mark Derrick won the circuit judge position over Tom Hughes.
• Two legislative incumbents were defeated: Barbara Nix defeated Lamont Cornwell in House District 28, and Joyce Elliott defeated Irma Hunter Brown in Senate District 33. The last incumbents to be defeated in the Legislature that I can remember were in 2002 (David Rackley defeated by Jeff Wood and Terry McMellon defeated by Shirley Walters). Court of Appeals Judge Wendell Griffen was also defeated last night by 6th Judicial District Circuit Judge Rita Gruber. All runoffs will take place on June 10, except for the judicial runoffs, which will be decided on the November ballot.
• The final results from the Benton County precincts in the Courtney Henry/Ron Williams judicial race came in after 2:00, and Henry maintained a 2-1 margin with 100% reporting. She might be as strong a statewide candidate an anyone in Arkansas after that showing.
There were several other interesting and close races -- scroll down for all the results. Here are today's front pages:
posted by Steve Harrelson @ 5/21/2008 06:40:00 AM | Permalink |
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