Middle Georgians voted in a handful of races Tuesday, including the hotly contested state Senate District 26 runoff match-up between incumbent Miriam Paris and former legislator David Lucas. Three Bibb County school board races, which were postponed because of a lawsuit involving election maps, were are on the ballot, along with the runoff for the House of Representatives District 139 seat. In addition, there were runoff elections in Baldwin, Dooly, Hancock, Washington, Telfair, Wheeler, Taylor, Johnson, Wilkinson and Crawford counties, among others. Below is an update on those races:
State Senate, District 26 (D)
David Lucas: 8,649
Miriam Paris (incumbent): 8,428
State House of Representatives, District 139 (D)
Patty Bentley: 3,000
Thomas Coogle: 2,958
Baldwin County
County Commission, District 2 (D)
Tommy Lee French: 298
Linda Fussell (incumbent): 150
Bibb County
School board, District 1 (D)
Ella Carter (incumbent): 2,056
Michael McKeever: 183
Brenda Sutton: 845
School board, District 2 (D),
Thelma Dillard: 1,610
Angel Davis-Hopper: 398
Alan Patrick Taylor: 291
School board, District 3 (D)
Susan Sipe (incumbent): 824
Merritt Johnson: 703
Crawford County
School board, District 3 (nonpartisan)
Richard Jacobs: 44
Tim Johnson (incumbent): 71
Dooly County
Court Clerk (D)
Willie Mae Chaney: 1,093
Betty Colter: 1,210
Hancock County
Court Clerk (D)
Frances Hunt: 587
Leshauna Reid Jackson: 932
Johnson County
Sheriff (D)
Michael Morris: 1,233
Rusty Oxford: 1,372
Taylor County
County Commission, District 1 (D)
Theodore Goss: 140
Cicero Latimore: 238
Telfair County
Court Magistrate (D)
Patsy Padgett (incumbent): 790
Bryan Selph: 967
County Commission, District 3 (D)
Wilson Bowen: 138
Troy Giddens: 293
Washington County
State Court Judge (nonpartisan)
John Dana: 1,927
Arthur Walker: 1,301
Wheeler County
Sheriff (D)
Tyrone Gillis: 628
Maurice Johnson: 843
Wilkinson County
Tax Commissioner (D)
Vanessa Fountain: 1,013
Charles Gasaway: 607


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