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KETR

Published March 4, 2008 at 9:44 AM CST

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A little snow and lots of political yard signs greeted early primary voters on Tuesday. The picture shows the sea of candidate signs at the entrance of Sand Hills Country Club south of Commerce, one of the voting locations in Hunt County. From KETR-Greenville correspondent Brad Kellar, with one box left to count in Hunt County, made up of those who voted in Neylandville:
Hunt County District Attorney-Republican primary:
Scott Cornaud-2239
Noble Walker-5134 Hunt County Sheriff-There will be a runoff following the Republican primary:
Richard Hill-2896 (36.6% of the vote)
Randy Meeks-3813 (48.2% of the vote)
Robert White-1201 (15.2% of the vote) Hunt County Commissioner, Precinct 1-There will be a runoff following the Republican primary:
Chris Bracken-557 (31% of the vote)
Richard Phillips-230 (13% of the vote)
Mike Pierce-753 (42% of the vote)
William Sherman-250 (14% of the vote) Hunt County Commissioner, Precinct 1-Democratic primary:
David "Frank" Giles-489
Kenneth Thornton (Incumbent)-1176 Hunt County Commissioner, Precinct 3-Republican primary:
Larry Middlebrooks-1155
Ronnie Morgan-790 Hunt County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1/Place 1-Republican primary:
Sandy Berger-2841
Brandon Bobbitt -1614 Hunt County Constable, Precinct 1-Republican primary wins the seat because there is no opponent:
Benny Brothers-1348
Terry Jones-2801 Hunt County Constable, Precinct 4-Republican primary:
Kent Layton-831
Glenn Parris-567 Thanks to Jane Jones, Delta County Clerk, for providing KETR these final unofficial results
Delta County Attorney-Democratic primary:
Michael Bartley (Incumbent)-493
Frank Moore-411 Delta County Sheriff-There will be a runoff following the Democratic primary:
O.G. Brewer-77 (8.19% of the vote)
Rickey "Don" Click-168 (20.25% of the vote)
Joe Slaton-188 (21.24% of the vote)
Gaylon "G.R." Wood (Incumbent)-415 (49.52% of the vote) Delta County Sheriff-Republican primary:
Chuck Reed-240
Gerald Teague-432 Delta County Commissioner, Precinct 1-Democratic primary:
Mickey Goforth-114
Rip Templeton (Incumbent)-157 Delta County Commissioner, Precinct 3-Democratic primary:
Ronney Benedict-94
Wayne Poole (Incumbent)-148 Thanks to Debbie Shirley and the staff of the Hopkins County Clerk's Office for these final unofficial numbers:
Hopkins County Commissioner, Precinct 1-Democrat primary: Beth Wisenbaker (Incumbent)-506
Will Woods-276 Hopkins County Commissioner, Precinct 3-Republican primary:
Phillip Anderson-221
Ron Reed-233 4th Congressional District-Hopkins County Democratic primary numbers:
VaLinda Hathcox of Sulphur Springs-2691
Glenn Melancon of Sherman-1117
District-wide, Melancon defeated Hathcox to earn the Democratic nomination. The general election will be a repeat of two years ago as Melancon tries again to defeat incumbent Ralph Hall. The Rockwall Republican scored twice as many votes as his four opponents combined.
Elsewhere, Sam Johnson has been declared the winner of the Republican primary in the 3rd Congressional district and John Cornyn has been declared the winner of the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.