Here are the results of today’s Republican Firehouse Primary for the 38th State Senate District seat vacated earlier this month by the death of Sen. Ben Chafin. See here for details of yesterday’s candidate forum [1].
These numbers will be updated as they are received.
The candidates: retired judge and Appalachian School of Law professor Chad Dotson, Supervisor Travis Hackworth, Lebanon town councilman Elijah Leonard, attorney Tamara Neo, Dickenson County Deputy Sheriff Jony Baker, and Kimberly Lowe.
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11:25 – Unofficial results:
According to the unofficial count, Supervisor Travis Hackworth will be the Republican nominee for State Senate District 38 in Virginia.
UNOFFICIAL FINAL NUMBERS:
HACKWORTH: 1984
DOTSON: 1304
LEONARD: 1191
NEO: 732
BAKER: 271
LOWE: 30
Update 11:30:
Tazewell County
Hackworth 1034
Neo 413
Dotson 137
Leonard 108
Lowe 17
Baker 7
Update 11:10: It appears the only location we are still waiting on is Tazewell County.
Updated 10:50: Statement from a Republican official in the counting room in Tazewell County — “Calling this a clusterf**k would be an understatement. Tazewell County was poorly planned. Still waiting on results.”
Bland Co:
Neo 83
Hackworth 77
Leonard 44
Dotson 38
Baker 1
Lowe 1
Buchanan Co:
Hackworth 299
Leonard 218
Dotson 153
Neo 67
Baker 6
Lowe 2
Dickenson Co:
Dotson 182
Baken 132
Hackworth 55
Leonard 31
Lowe 5
Neo 3
Pulaski Co:
Dotson 275
Hackworth 160
Neo 96
Leonard 56
Baker 27
Loe 3
City of Radford:
Dotson 80
Neo 23
Hackworth 13
Baker 0
Leonard 0
Lowe 0
Smyth
Dotson 35
Hackworth 32
Leonard 28
Baker 2
Neo 2
Lowe 0
Wise Co:
Dotson 286
Baker 79
Leonard 26
Hackworth 14
Neo 13
Lowe 2
And some dumbass drove to the polls and left their ballot blank.