Baldwin County voting picked Barnes over Deal

Baldwin County had public office seats up for grabs in the Nov. 2 general election, as well as a pair of Baldwin County Board of Education seats open, and Georgia State Senate and House of Representative seats open.

In the District One school board race, incumbent Wilbur Manson emerged victorious, garnering 756 votes. Manson was able to fend off a pair of challengers, as Gloria Wicker collected 548 votes, and Donna V. Hurt had 390 votes.

In the District Five school board election, challenger Wes Cummings came out on top with 1,641 votes. Cummings knocked off incumbent Jeff McAfee, who had 1,328 votes. Meanwhile, Ulysses Foston had 600 votes in that race.

Incumbent Rusty Kidd once again came out on top in the Georgia House of Representatives District 141 race. Kidd, an independent, had 6,485 votes, defeating democratic challenger Quentin Howell, who tallied 4,826 votes.

Meanwhile in the Georgia Senate District 25 race, republican Johnny Grant had 6,327 votes, enough to oust Floyd Griffin, who had 4,927 votes.

While Tuesday was a largely tough day for Democrats both state and nationwide, Democratic incumbent John Barrow held onto his 12th District Congressional seat, defeating Republican challenger Ray McKinney with 57 percent of the overall vote. Those numbers held largely similar in Baldwin County, as Barrow collected 5,332 votes to 4,206 for McKinney.

In Georgia’s eighth congressional district, the other district that represents Baldwin County, conservative Democratic incumbent Jim Marshall lost his bid for a fifth term in the United States House of Representatives to Republican challenger Austin Scott, 53 percent to 47 percent. Marshall did win in Baldwin County, knocking off Scott 835 votes to 689.

Republican incumbent Johnny Isakson was easily elected to a second term in the United States Senate, as he defeated democratic challenger Mike Thurmond with 58 percent of the vote. The race in Baldwin County was a bit closer, with Isakson edging out Thurmond, 5,686 votes to 5,082 votes.

As Republicans rolled throughout Georgia, sweeping all of the major government positions, democrats fared far better in Baldwin County. In the governor’s race, democrat Roy Barnes won in Baldwin County with 5,686 votes. Former Republican Congressman Nathan Deal had 5,130 votes in Baldwin. However, Deal won the statewide race with ease, notching 53 percent of the votes, while Barnes got 43 percent of the vote in Georgia. Libertarian candidate John Monds had 380 votes in Baldwin County, while getting four percent of the statewide tally.

The Lieutenant Governor’s race was largely the same story. Democratic challenger Carol Porter got 5,700 votes in Baldwin County, beating republican incumbent Casey Cagle, who had 5,101 votes. However, Cagle rode the supporting wave of republican support to cruise to re-election, as he received 55 percent of the statewide vote to Porter’s 42 percent.

All federal and statewide tallies were with 99 percent of total precincts reporting.

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