TIFTON — The May 22 Primary Election ended with a mix of incumbents holding on to their seats and new challengers winning in the Tift County Board of Commissioners and Tift County Board of Education.

Tift County Board of Commissioners districts 1, 3, 4 and 6 and for Tift County Board of Education districts 2, 4, 5 and 6 were on the ballot.

In a tight race for county commission district 1, incumbent Donnie Hester, with 149 votes, was able to hold out against challenger Raymond Teal Sr., who earned 131 votes.

Tony McBrayer, who challenged incumbent Robert Setters for the district 3 seat on the county commission, was the winner, with 507 votes against Setters’ 175 votes.

County Commission District 4 seat was a four way race, with incumbent Stan Stalnaker ending up with the majority of the votes.

Stalnaker ended up with 538 votes, defeating Cassell (79 votes), Cater (250 votes) and Norman (95 votes).

In a tight race, incumbent district 6 commissioner Greg Wood was able to hold onto his seat against challenger Lester Potts. Wood had 327 votes to Potts’ 311 votes.

The Tift County Board of Education had three contested seats on the ballot.

The district 4 seat was won by Jamie Hill. Hill, with 512 votes, was able to beat Richard Golden’s 447.

Sam Wright won the district 5 seat against Jarrett Haskell, 397 votes to 111 votes.

In district 6, Rusty Harrelson, with 274 votes, edged out Jimmy Cargle (243 votes) and Jo Windom (118 votes).

With no candidate for district 6 getting more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election is expected.

John W. Smith ran for district 2 unopposed.

All of the TCBOC and TCBOE seats were only contested by a single party. This makes the primary winners essentially winners for the November election, barring write-in candidates.

The region-wide TSPLOST won in Tift County, with 2,627 “Yes” votes against 1,521 “No” votes.

To go into effect, TSPLOST would need to be approved by a majority of the voters in the 18-county region.

Results for the region were still coming in as of this posting.

Statewide results for Democratic and Republican candidates for several statewide offices, including governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, commissioner of agriculture, commissioner of insurance, state school superintendent and commissioner of labor, were are coming in as of this posting.

For the full results, see www.tiftongazette.com.

For the Republican candidates for governor, Casey Cagle took the lead with 41.41 percent of the Republican vote in Tift County.

He was followed by Brian Kemp with 24.70 percent and Hunter Hill with 20.42 percent.

Clay Tippens eared 10.27 percent of the Republic vote in Tift County, with Michael Williams earning 3.2 percent.

That roughly lines up with statewide results as of press time, with Cagle at 39.68 percent, Kemp at 26.93 percent and Hill at 16.73 percent.

Tippins was at 11.61 percent and Williams at 5.04 percent.

For the Democratic candidates for governor, Stacey Abrams won 654 Tift County votes to Stacey Evans’ 284.

As of press time, Abrahams had 73.05 percent of the vote for Georgia, with Evans at 26.95 percent.