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Governor Brian Kemp won his primary reelection campaign by more than 70 percent.
Stephens County followed the rest of Georgia in most statewide primary races Tuesday.
Stephens voters favored incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp by 63.31 percent and 2,666 votes in the Republican primary.
That was more than twice as many votes here as challenger David Perdue, who was backed by former president Donald Trump.
Perdue garnered 1,305 votes in Stephens County for 30.99 percent while challengers Kandiss Taylor had 198 votes (4.70 percent), Catherine Davis had 31 votes (0.74 percent), and Tom Williams had 11 votes (0.26 percent).
Statewide, Kemp overwhelmingly won the Republic primary by receiving 73.69 percent of the votes.
That’s 876,839 votes for Kemp in Georgia compared to Perdue’s 259,495 (21.81 percent).
Tayor had 40,735 (3.42 percent) votes, Davis 9.654 (0.81 percent), and Williams 3,198 (0.27 percent).
That means Kemp avoids a runoff in the Republican primary and will face Democrat challenger Stacy Abrams in the Nov. 7 general election. She was unopposed in the Democratic primary.
District 9 U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde also won handily against four other candidates vying for his seat in Stephens County and across the district.
Clyde received 3,367 votes in Stephens County.
That was 83.07 percent of the vote for that race placing Clyde far ahead of challengers Michael Boggus, J. Gregory Howard, John London, and Ben Souther, none of whom had more than 7 percent in Stephens County.
Clyde received 76.40 percent of the vote districtwide and will face Democrat challenger Michael “Mike” Ford on Nov. 7.
Incumbent state Sen. Bo Hatchett and Rep. Chris Erwin ran unopposed in the Republican primary.
Hatchett will face Democrat challenger Paulette Williams Nov. 7 while no one qualified as a Democrat to run against Erwin.
Stephens County also followed the state in the Republican primary sending 3,021 votes the way of former UGA running back Herschel Walker, who was also supported by Trump.
That was 72.69 percent of the votes for Walker in Stephens County, and 68.22 percent of the vote for Walker in the state.
Walker will be running against incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock on Nov. 7.
Secretary of state (SOS) Republican candidate Jody Hice edged out incumbent SOS Brad Raffensperger in Stephens County with 1,702 votes (41.95 percent) to Raffensperger’s 1.690 votes (41.66 percent).
However, statewide, Raffensperger avoided a runoff collecting 52.31 percent of the votes to Hice’s 33.38 percent.
Two other Republican candidates in the SOS primary — David C. Belle Isle and T.J. Hudson — each failed to collect more than 10 percent of the votes statewide.
Raffensperger will face the winner of a Democratic runoff between Bee Nguyen and Dee Dawkins-Haigler for secretary of state in November.
Around 12:30 a.m. to 1 a.m., Wednesday, activity at the Stephens County Elections Office began to wind down and total counts in Tuesday’s primary elections were tallied up.
Documents showed that 4,712 ballots were cast in the primary elections here. That’s 23.9 percent of the county’s 17,684 registered voters.