Dallas Sikes and Michael Thornton are winners in District 2 runoffs for Wayne County’s Board of Education and Board of Commissioners, respectively.
Sikes outpolled Jacob Weaver 463-401 in Tuesday’s nonpartisan runoff for Wayne’s 2nd District school board seat.
Sikes will succeed incumbent Bruce Harris in January.
Thornton defeated Melvin Boyette 515-274 for the Republican nomination for 2nd District county commissioner.
Because there is no Democratic nominee, Thornton is the de facto county commissioner-elect, slated to succeed incumbent Kevin McCrary next year.
The District 2 races were the only local races in Georgia’s General Primary and Nonpartisan Election Runoff Tuesday.
Wayne voters also cast ballots, though, in five other Republican runoffs, including those for nominees for governor and U.S. senator, and six other Democratic runoffs, including the race for nominee for Georgia’s 1st Congressional District.
The countywide voter turnout was 16.1 percent (3,151 votes out of 19,533 registered voters). The total number of votes included 1,706 election-day votes, 1,359 early in-person votes and 86 mail-in (absentee) ballots.
The turnout in the District 2 school board race was 21.4 percent (875 out of 4,081). The turnout in the District 2 county commissioner race—which was limited to Republican Primary voters—was 19.6 percent (802 out of 4,081).
(For comprehensive runoff results, see this week’s print edition of The Press-Sentinel.)