Hinds County elections: Tyree Jones wins handily in sheriff's race. See supervisors winners

Local primaries were held in Hinds County Tuesday, with voters turning out to cast their votes for the top Republican and Democratic candidates to compete in the general election on Nov. 7.

Below, are the notable races in each county and how the candidates fared.

Hinds County

Incumbent sheriff Tyree Jones won this year's sheriff's race, defeating his opponent Marshand Crisler.

Jones, who garnered better than 85% of the vote, will continue on as the county's top law enforcement officer for the next four years. This will be his first official term as sheriff. In 2021, he defeated Crisler in a special run-off election after the previous sheriff, Lee Vance, died due to complications of COVID-19.

"I want to thank God and my beautiful family for the continued support for this, as well as the community," Jones said. "I look forward to sharing the night and conversation with those who came out to support."

Crisler said he was disappointed with the results and with the amount of voters who turned out to cast their votes. If more people showed up to the ballots, the race could have been closer than it was, Crisler said.

He also said a federal indictment that is looming over him played a part in his loss. The indictment was released in April, and Crisler faces charges of accepting bribes and selling ammunition to a convicted felon.

“You have to be suspicious about the timing because allegedly this happened two years ago, so why wait?” Crisler said. “If I’m honest, I’m absolutely suspicious of the timing of this indictment."

He denied the charges and said the fact that people knew about it "makes it way, way more challenging to seek a public office regardless of your innocence. People don't know you're innocent until you're proven innocent."

Hinds County Board of Supervisors winners

Twenty Democratic candidates squared off in the Hinds County Board of Supervisors races, competing for the Democratic nomination in the county's five districts.

Incumbent Robert Graham won again in District 1, defeating his challengers Eva Crisler and Liugia Hodge. This will be Graham's fourth term as supervisor.

Anthony Smith edged out incumbent David Archie in the District 2 race. This will be Smith's first time as an elected official. He previously told the Clarion Ledger that if he is elected he will take part of his salary and put it into an at-risk youth and parents program to "try to bring all these different groups together so we can start making a change on the way people think and act."

Smith has owned and operated a computer maintenance business for the past 34 years.

Deborah Butler Dixon will be the new supervisor in District 3, defeating incumbent supervisor Credell Calhoun and Antonio Porter.

Dixon previously represented District 63 in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020.

In District 4, Wanda Evers secured the Democratic nomination. She defeated incumbent Vern Gavin, James Lott, Robert Amos and Emon Thompson. Evers is a radio host of and the niece of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.

Evers will now face off against District 4's Republican candidate Allison Clower Lauderdale in the general election on Nov. 7.

District 5 had the most amount of candidates vying for the supervisor seat with five. But it was incumbent supervisor Bob McGowan who was declared the winner, defeating four challengers: Ashley Floyd, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Wall and Freddie Schuller.

Other Hinds County election results are as follows:

• Eddie Jean Carr, who ran unopposed, was elected as chancery clerk with 93.40% of the vote.

• Zack Wallace was elected as circuit clerk with 93.37% of the vote. He ran unopposed.

• Sharon Grisham-Stewart, with 83.95% of the vote, defeated challenger Lee Thompson, who won 12.89% of the vote and will remain the coroner.

• Gerald Mumford, who ran unopposed, was elected as county attorney with 90.40% of the vote.

• Charles Stokes defeated Willie Bob McGinnis to become the county's tax assessor. Stokes won with 69.77% of the vote, while McGinnis only won 24.59%.

• Eddie Fair, with 73.92% of the vote, was elected as the county's tax collector. He defeated Timothy Lewis, who won 24.09%.

• Don Palmer won the election for justice court judge for District 1. He ran unopposed.

• Tabitha Britton-Porter, with 72.23% of the vote defeated Monique Montgomery to become justice court judge for District 2. Montgomery received only 21.22% of the vote.

• Frank Sutton was elected as justice court judge for District 3. He ran unopposed.

• Kenny Lewis was elected as justice court judge for District 4. With 58.85% of the vote, Lewis outlasted challenger Joanna Archie, who won 37.64% of the vote.

• Pearlie Brown Owens, who ran unopposed, was elected as justice court judge for District 5.

• Jerry Moore was elected as District 1 constable. He ran unopposed.

• With 61.20% of the vote, John Brown was elected District 2 constable. Brown defeated Leon Jones, who won 16.41% of the vote, and Cedric Love, who won 16.83% of the vote.

• Lawrence Funchess was elected as District 3 constable with 63.81% of the vote. He defeated Lonnie Holmes, who won 31.29% of the vote.

• Beverly Wade-Green, with 77.80% of the vote, defeated Larry White, 17.07% of the vote, to become the constable for District 5.

• Jeffrey Maurice Lewis was elected as county surveyor. He ran unopposed.

This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Here are the winners of the local Hinds County primary elections