TRACY HARRIS
Staff Writer
The 2024 state primary and county general election summary is below but page four has the table with more information on local numbers for Assessor of Property, Register of Deeds, Chapel Hill Alderman, Councilman Ward 5, (R) U.S. House District 5, and (D) U.S. Senate.
The election drew most of its voters out to the polls during the two weeks of early voting in July. Early voting accounted for 2,936 votes with 125 paper absentee ballots included in that number.
On Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, Election Day, there were 2,162 ballots cast across Marshall County. Overall, 5,223 voters showed up at the polls out of just over 22,000 registered, almost 24% turnout.
The polling location with the most voters on Election Day was the McKnight Center with 741 and the least was Hardison with 413.
Register of Deeds had the highest amount of votes on the ballot with 4,997 in total. Most of those went to Curtis Johnson – 2,248. Joey Young finished second with 1,501 and J J King with 1,244 votes. Curtis Johnson will replace Jennifer Neill who was appointed as Incumbent Register of Deeds following the death of Dorris Wayne Weaver.
Two candidates were running for Marshall County Assessor of Property. Jennifer Neill received a total of 2,929 votes (more than 1,200 on Election Day alone). Keith Hollingsworth had a total of 2,032.
Councilman Ward 5 City of Lewisburg was the only place on the ballot where an incumbent, Councilman Joseph (Joe) Bradford, fought to retain their seat. Bradford received 101 votes. Shannon Crutcher received 144 and will fill the seat on Sept. 1, 2024.
The Town of Chapel Hill will add Hawken King, Craig McPherson, and Joe Sedlak to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. There were five candidates but only three seats available, so the highest three candidates will become aldermen.
There were several uncontested races on the ballot including the following school board members. District 1 Tresha Grissom; District 2 Harvey E Jones, Jr.; District 4 Andy Woodard; District 7 Betsy Bishop; and District 8 Michael Herron.
Marshall County Commissioner (uncontested) District 2 Randy Perryman received 386 courtesy votes.
Councilman Ward 1 City of Lewisburg Linda Thomas received 227 votes in another uncontested race. She will take her seat on Sept. 1, 2024. She is replacing Patty Parsons who decided not to renew her term.
The Town of Petersburg had three candidates for Alderman- Kevin J. Coffield with 13 votes, Charles Gatlin with 16, and Shantel Gatlin with 11.
Vincent (Vince) Cuevas ran against incumbent Chris Morris for (R) State Executive Committeeman District 28. Cuevas received 1,963 (56.13%) over Morris 1,528 (43.67) in Marshall County. However, Morris will retain the seat with district votes at 9,582 (61.79%) over Cuevas at 5,926 (38.21%.)
The Democrat race for U. S. Senate had four candidates fighting statewide to take on Marsha Blackburn. Gloria Bradshaw won just over 72% of the votes in Marshall County and 70% across the state. She will move on to fight Blackburn since Blackburn defeated Tres Wittum.
Other Republican primary candidates are moving forward to face their opponents in November too.
In the U. S. House District 5 race, (R) Andy Ogles had a large victory over (R) Courtney Johnston here and in District 5. Ogles moves on to face Democratic opponent (D Maryam Abolfazli.
TN Senate District 28 (R) Joey Hensley has a challenger, (D) James Dallas.
For TN House District 92, (R) Todd Warner has a challenger, (D) Teri Mai.
Marshall County voters voted to retain both judges on the ballot, the Supreme Court Judge Tarwater and Court of Criminal Appeals- Western Division.
