Local News – Wednesday, August 8th, 2018

A Primary Election was held Tuesday to determine who will run for offices for their respective parties in the November General Election. In some cases, the election determined who will take office in January. Those offices include the Dent County Presiding Commissioner race, Public Administrator race and Dent County Collector race. A total of 4,022 votes were cast which is 40.65% of the registered voters. Only the contested races are presented and the results presented are unofficial.
* indicates winner.

Dent County Presiding Commissioner

Darrell Skiles*   1,678 votes
Travis Fulton     1,574 votes

Dent County Collector

Shannon VanKirk*    2,134 votes
Nancy M. Inman       1,098 votes

Public Administrator

Sherida Cook*      1,689 votes
Nikki Eaton         1,402 votes

The 143rd State Representative race was also decided in the Republican primary. Other results show the winner of the Republican Primary and they will face an opponent in the November General Election.

State Representative District 143

Jeffrey Pogue*       4,270 votes
Jack Bates              1,405 votes

Circuit Judge Circuit 42 Division 1

Megan Seay*        6,095 votes
Scott Bernstein    3,255 votes
Glenn Hall            1,210 votes

State Senator 16th District

Justin Dan Brown*     10,528 votes
Diane Franklin              9,243 votes
Keith Frederick             6,497 votes
Chris McElvy, Dent County Sheriff’s Office Jail Administrator, was named 2018 Jail Administrator of the Year at the annual jail administrators’ conference held recently. McElvy was nominated by Dent County Sheriff Bob Wells. She has been in the Jail Administrator since January of 2017. McElvy’s law enforcement career began in Perry County in 1998.