Donley County voters strongly backed Kristy Christopher as their choice for Tax Assessor Collector in the only contested county-wide race on last week’s General Election ballot.
Running as a Republican, Christopher received 968 compared to Democrat Tony Dale’s 158 votes. Write-in candidate Deedra Keen received 44 votes.
Christopher will succeed Linda Crump when her term expires at the end of this year.
On the presidential ballot, Donley voters preferred President Trump with 1,438 in favor of his re-election compared to 198 who preferred former vice president Joe Biden, who carried the national popular vote and appears to have enough electoral votes to be the next president. Mr. Trump is challenging those results in several states, however.
Some local voters preferred other candidates for president with Libertarian Jo Jorgensen getting 11 votes and one vote going to Howie Hawkins.
Republican Ronny Jackson was the strong favorite across District 13 to succeed US Rep. Mac Thornberry, who is retiring when his term expires in January.
Jackson received 1,419 votes locally compared to 178 for Democrat Gus Trujillo and 29 for Libertarian Jack Westbrook.
Several local candidates were unopposed in this year’s general election. Those returns include County Attorney Landon Lambert 1,423, Sheriff Butch Blackburn 1,436, Precinct One Commissioner Mark White 340, Precinct 3 Commissioner-elect Neil Koetting 344, Precinct 3&4 Constable Doug Wright 644, District Judge Stuart Messer 1,444, and District Attorney Luke Inman 1,407.
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