HUNTSVILLE - Scott County Sessions Judge James L. (Jamie) Cotton, Jr. fell short in his bid for Circuit Court Judge of the 8th Judicial District, while the Oneida Special School District Board of Education seats two new members.
Those were the results of but two of the races that took place in the Scott County General Election on Thursday night, according to uncertified returns reported by the Scott County Election
Commission Office.
Cotton carried Scott County heavily - by nearly a four-to-one margin - but wound up in third place, with Claiborne County Sessions Judge John McAfee winning the judge's seat and Campbell County attorney Kathy Parrott finishing second.
Cotton picked up 2,545 votes (66%) in Scott County on Thursday, while Parrott polled second with 671 votes (17%), Campbell County attorney Reid Troutman picked up 480 (12%) and McAfee recorded only 156 votes (4%). Former appointed state representative Mark Goins, who originally qualified for the race but chose not to run after the deadline for withdrawl, picked up 35 votes in Scott County.
Despite finishing a distant fourth in Scott County and Campbell County, and in third place in Fentress County, McAfee rallied in counties close to home, recording wins in Union and Claiborne County.
Even with the most votes in Union County, McAfee was a distant fourth in the overall race, with Claiborne County's vote not yet tallied after all other counties had announced their returns. But McAfee heavily carried Claiborne County, recording 3,938 votes. With the vote broken down, McAfee carried his home county by a smaller percentage of the overall vote than Cotton carried Scott County (66% in Scott for Cotton; 59% in Claiborne for McAfee) but the sheer size of Claiborne County's voting populus - with some 6,624 voters traveling to the polls on Thursday and in the early voting period - propelled McAfee to the win.
The finaly tally showed McAfee with 6,162 votes to Parrott's 5,857 votes, Cotton's 5,558 votes and Troutmans's 5,289 votes.
With the victory, McAfee will complete the unexpired term of Conrad Troutman, who retired from the Circuit Court Judge's position in June. With two years remaining on the term, the seat will be up
for reelection in 2006.
GENERAL ELECTION
Two new members were seated on the Oneida Special School District Board of Education in Thursday's
vote. Dr. Danny Cross, an Oneida-area optometrist, and Nancy B. Williamson, long-time administrative employee of the Oneida Special School District, were elected to the board, while incumbent Denny Smith was defeated. Board Chairman Mike Baker did not seek re-election.
Cross was the top vote-getter, recording 331 votes. Williamson finished with 310 votes, while Smith recorded 241 votes.
Meanwhile, all three candidates up for re-election to the Scott County Board of Education retained their seats for four more years.
In the second district, incumbent Sam Wright, who currently serves as the board's chairman, out-polled challenger John Chambers, son of former board member J.D. Chambers, by a total of 344 votes to 272 votes.
In the third district, incumbent Jake Sharp defeated challengers Anthony Dane Buttram and Larry Letner, recording 283 votes to Buttram's 229 and Letner's 85.
In the sixth district, incumbent Vivian Smith was running unopposed, and recorded 398 courtesy votes.
In the constable's races, David "Blue" Day, running unopposed, received 313 votes in his bid for the first district position. In the second district, Marshall Bertram defeated Jimmy Sexton 356-208 to take the constable's position. Teddy King outpolled Tim Woodward 414 to 116 for the third district constable position, while Curtis Crabtree and Sherman Reagan, Jr. picked up the constable's seats in the fourth and fifth districts, both running without opposition. In the sixth
district, David Brewster outpolled three challengers, recording 191 votes to James Leonard Phillips' 145, Ricky Duncan's 64 and Arie Williams' 63. In the seventh district, Anthony Carson recorded 167 votes, outpolling Steven W. Boyatt (142), Bo Foster (140) and Mike Erwin (102).
In the only county-wide race, Assessor of Property Steve Thompson was running unopposed, and recorded 2,909 courtesy votes.
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