A Republican tidal wave hit the polls in Donley County as local voters chose Donald Trump as their preferred candidate for president during last week’s general election.
Of the 1,480 votes cast, 1,073 voted a straight Republican ticket, and Mr. Trump picked up a total of 1,225 votes in Donley County. Democrat Hillary Clinton received 191, Libertarian Gary Johnson picked up 40, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein got 14. Four other write-in votes went to Evan McMullin.
In the only locally contested race, Precinct 3 County Commissioner Andy Wheatly received 226 votes over his write-in challenger Neil Koetting, who picked up 88.
In terms of percent, voter turnout locally was up slightly from the last presidential election with 64.2 percent of registered voters casting ballots, but the actual number of voters going to the poll was down from four years ago with 1,480 this year compared to 1,539 in 2012.
Clarendon native Republican Mac Thornberry coasted to another term in Congress and received 1,266 votes compared to 95 local votes for Libertarian Calvin Deweese and 45 for Green Party candidate Rusty Tomlinson. Ken King (R) of Canadian was also unopposed in seeking to represent Donley County in the State House of Representatives and received 1,273 local votes.
District Judge Stuart Messer was unopposed and received 1,291 votes. District Attorney Luke Inman also faced no opponent and got 1,252 votes.
All other county level races were also uncontested with incumbents cruising to re-election. Results are as follows: County Attorney Landon Lambert 1,258, County Sheriff Butch Blackburn 1,313, County Tax Assessor/Collector Linda Crump 1,334, County Commissioner Pct. 1 Mark White 295, County Commissioner Pct. 3 and Constable Prcts. 3&4 Doug Wright 578.
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