Low Turnout Not Surprise in County Primary

Less than one in four Montgomery County voters turned out for a primary election race that only had a handful of contested races.

A total of 5,158 ballots were cast out of 21,819 registered voters. As usual, Republicans dominated the numbers with 4,713 ballots compared to 445 for the Democrats.

The county council incumbents were all returned to office. David Hunt (27 percent) and Gary Booth (26.5) are joined by Mike Warren (31).  David McCartney’s bid for council fell short with 15 percent.

Newcomer Jake Bohlander won the county commissioner seat that was held by longtime Commissioner John Frey. Frey chose not to run for re-election. Tom Cummins (surveyor), Dan Guard (commissioner) and Steve Gressmire (coroner) all won in uncontested races.

In the county contested races, Sondra Dittmer Sixberry edged out incumbent Leah Denbo 54.13 percent to 45.87 percent for clerk.

For the Recorder, Nancy Cox won easily with 73.33 percent of the vote. Her opponent Shari Lovold got 26.67 percent.

See The Paper on Friday for a full recap of the results.