Marshall County election results

By Scott Pearson
Posted 8/5/20

Marshall County will have a new representative in the General Assembly next term, as Todd Warner defeated two-term incumbent Rick Tillis and challenger Vincent Cuevas in the 92nd District Republican primary. Warner garnered 2,176 votes in Marshall County to Tillis' 1,673 and Cuevas' 896...

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Marshall County election results

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Marshall County will have a new representative in the General Assembly next term, as Todd Warner defeated two-term incumbent Rick Tillis and challenger Vincent Cuevas in the 92nd District Republican primary.

Warner garnered 2,176 votes in Marshall County to Tillis' 1,673 and Cuevas' 896.

Across the four county district, Warner won 47 percent of the votes.

With no Democratic challenger in November, the winner of the Republican primary takes the seat.

In contested School Board races, William Bell defeated Charles Sellars 510 votes to 349, to retain his seat.

Erin Jones defeated Katie Warf Viazcan 331 to 178 for the District 8 seat being vacated by Robert Warf.

Bam Haislip won reelection to the Lewisburg Ward 1 seat, receiving182 votes to his challenger Sharrin Lusco's 112.

The three-way race for Ward 5 was won by Joe Bradford with 101 votes, just under 41 percent. Incumbent Nicholas Tipper trailed with 88 votes, and Toby Adams received 57 votes.

In a crowded Chapel Hill alderman race with seven candidates running for three seats, incumbents Marion Joyce and Dottie Morton retained seats on the board with 191 and 136 votes, first and third respectively.

Joe Sedlak finished second in the voting with 154 votes for a seat on the board.

Incumbent Horace Hill, Jr. finished fourth with 114 votes. The board indicated in the past that they were open to appointing the fourth place finisher to the unfinished term of the late Tommy Lawrence.

Thirty one percent of the county's registered voters went to the polls.