The local Washington County election results show a majority of citizens in contested elections here support Joe Biden for president, Mike Espy for the United States Senate, Bennie Thompson for U.S. Congress, Latrice Westbrooks for Mississippi Supreme Court, the new design of the Mississippi State Flag and medical marijuana.
There were 10,547 votes cast on election day. There are about 7,100 absentee ballots and those votes are not reported in these results. They are being counted now.
Local results for each contested race are:
• President and Vice President
- Biden/Harris – 6,218, 59.14%
- Trump/Pence – 4,114, 39.13%
- Blankenship/Mohr – 9, .09%
- Carroll/Patel – 15, .14%
- Collins/Parker – 15, .14%
- Hawkins/Walker – 17, .16%
- Jorgensen/Cohen – 45, .43
- Pierce/Ballard – 9, .09%
- West/Tidball – 55, .52%
- Write-in votes – 17, .16%
• U.S. Senate
- Mike Espy – 6,596, 62.79%
- Cindy Hyde-Smith – 3,810, 36.27%
- Jimmy L. Edwards – 90, .86%
- Write-in votes – 9, .09%
• Mississippi Supreme Court District 1
- Latrice Westbrooks – 5,050, 54.79%
- Kenny Griffis – 4,134, 44.85%
- Write-in votes – 33, .36%
• Election Commissioner District 1
- Michael Oltremari – 1,527, 60.98
- J. Bush Thompson – 975, 38.94%
• Leland School Board L05
- Don Lee Keim – 229, 62.40%
- Jesse Tyler – 134, 36.51%
• For approval of Medical Marijuana initiatives
- For approval of either – 6,923, 74.74%
- Against both – 2,340, 25.26%
- For initiative 65 – 6,213, 74.95%
- For initiative 65A – 2,076, 25.05%
• House concurrent revolution No. 47 (To change the tie-breaker process for election of Mississippi Governor)
- Yes – 8220, 84.02%
- No – 1,563, 15.98%
• House Bill 1796 – for or against the new design of the Mississippi State Flag
- Yes – 8,075, 78.76%
- No – 2,178, 21.24%
In uncontested elections, Leslie King won election to the Supreme Court District 2, Sandra Reed won the Election Commissioner District 2 position, Rosie Sturdevant won the Election Commissioner District 3 position, Sadie Sheard Sherdon won the Election Commissioner District 4 position, Naomi Thomas Curtis won the Election Commissioner District 5 position, F. Carradine Hester won the Hollandale School Board H-1 position, Norma J. McDavid won the Western Line School District 5 position, Stacy L. Wilson-Wells won the Holland School board position.
