Twenty Percent Of County’s Voters Cast Ballots In Primaries
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WATER VALLEY – Just over 20 percent of Yalobusha County’s 8,070 registered voters cast a ballot in the March 12 Presidential Primary to select party nominees in three races.
In the most contested primary on the primary ballots in Mississippi, Senator Roger Wicker prevailed in the three-way race on the Republican ticket, receiving 53 percent of the votes cast in Yalobusha County on the
Republican ticket with 578 votes. Wicker received 60 percent of the vote count statewide. Wicker faced two challengers in the primary – Ghannon Burton, who earned 359 votes in the county, and Dan Eubanks, who tallied 152 votes in the county.
Wicker’s win secures his party’s nomination and he will advance to the General Election where will face Democratic candidate Ty Pinkins, who was unopposed on the Democratic ticket in last week’s primary. Pinkins received 462 votes in Yalobusha County.
Wicker was appointed to the Senate in 2007 by then-Governor Haley Barbour after Trent Lott stepped down. Wicker won a special election for the position the following year and was reelected in 2012 and 2018. Wicker also served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1994 to 2007.
President Joe Biden was unopposed in the Democratic Primary in Mississippi and received 508 votes in Yalobusha County. Biden has not had a serious challenger in other state’s primary elections. Biden became his party’s presumptive nominee after winning Mississippi and primaries in multiple states across the county on March 12.
Biden is expected to face Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump in the November General Election in a rematch from 2020. Trump received 1,046 votes in Yalobusha County and is the only Republican candidate remaining in the race. Former candidates Ron DeSantis, Nikki R. Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy have suspended their presidential campaign as Trump emerged as the frontrunner for his party. DeSantis, Haley and Ramaswamy remained on the ballot in Mississippi due to the tight timeline between suspending their campaigns and filing necessary paperwork with the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office to withdraw from the ballot. DeSantis received 10 votes in Yalobusha County, Haley received 37 votes and Ramaswami received one vote.
In the final race on the primary ballots for the Second Congressional District, Democratic incumbent Bennie Thompson is unopposed in his party’s primary. Thompson received 507 votes in Yalobusha County.
On the Republican ticket for Second Congressional District, Ron Eller led the ticket with 46.5 percent of the votes cast in the district and 390 votes in Yalobusha County. Andrew Smith received 35.9 percent of the votes district-wide and 463 in Yalobusha County. Taylor Tucotte tallied 17.6 percent votes and 142 in Yalobusha County.
With no candidate receiving a majority of the votes cast in the primary, Eller and Smith will advance to a runoff on April 2. The winner will face Thompson in the General Election. Thompson has held the office since 1993, when he won a special election, and is the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee.
The election cycle in Mississippi start with primaries that allow Republican and Democratic voters to select a nominee from their party to run in the General Election in November. In the General Election, the party nominees are on the ballot, along with independent or third party candidates.
