2016 local election primary results
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, May 25, 2016
LaGRANGE — Unofficial results are in for Troup County primary elections, and it appears a county commissioner has been unseated and the 1 percent educational special-purpose, local-option sales tax will continue.
Here’s the results from major, contested local elections based on the results released Tuesday:
Tax Commissioner (Republican, no Democratic candidates)
*Winner — Shane Frailey: 3,637 (55.71 percent)
Bill Hunnicutt: 2,274
Ronnie LeFevers: 618
County Commissioner, District 2 (Republican, no Democratic candidates)
*Winner — Ellis Cadenhead: 1,575 (80.94 percent)
William Lee — 371
County Commissioner, District 3 (Republican, no Democratic candidates)
*Winner — Lewis Davis: 1,274 (61.58 percent)
Tripp Foster — 795
Board of Education, District 5 (non-partisan)
*Runoff between Cathy Hunt: 541 (45.62 percent) and John Asbell: 440 (37.1 percent)
Kendall Butler: 205
Board of Education, District 6 (non-partisan)
*Winner — Joe Franklin: 729 (66.82 percent)
Dorothy Jennings: 242
Rodell Poole: 113
E-SPLOST
Passed: 5,062 (63.5 percent) to 2,910.