More than 7,500 voters turned out to exercise their civic duty this election cycle.
Unofficially, of the 12,421 registered voters, 7,761 total voters turned out.
Locally in the race for Justice of the Peace 1&3, Karen Goodman received 77 percent (2,757 votes) of the votes with 1,758 of those coming in early voting and 709 on election day (290 came absentee). Geoff Bowley received 11.35 percent of the vote and Fawnswa Hopson received 11.16 percent.
While the fate of the White House is still up in the air at the national level, President Donald Trump won Gray County amassing 6,812 or 87.95 percent of the County’s votes (4,392 early, 640 absentee and 1,780 Election Day). Democratic candidate Joe Biden received 10.59 percent and Libertarian Jo Jorgensen received 1.25 percent.
In the United State Senator’s race, Republican John Cornyn took 87.28 percent of the vote to MJ Hagar’s 10 percent in Gray County.
Ronny Jackson won Gray County and will replace Mac Thornberry for United States Representative but won 87.79 percent of Gray County’s vote.
Pampa’s own Jay Johnson received 89.65 percent of Gray County’s vote for State Board of Education, but did win the seat state-wide.
In the McLean Independent School District trustee race, Sheri Haynes won 54.65 percent (252 election day, 91 early and 15 absentee) of the vote over Frankie Sparling’s 29.16 percent and Debbie Smith’s 16.18 percent.
For full election results, visit results.texas-election.com/races.
