Updated Wayne County primary election results

Mike Emery, Richmond Palladium-Item
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Wayne County results from the Tuesday, May 3, 2022, primary election. These are updated results after 92 ballots were counted Wednesday after being missed Tuesday night.

Democrats

Contested races

  • U.S. Representative, 6th District: Cynthia (Cinde) Wirth, 641 (72.68%); George Thomas Holland, 241 (27.327%)

Unopposed candidates

  • U.S. Senator: Thomas M. McDermott, Jr., 867 (100%)

  • State Senate, District 27: Ronald Itnyre, 865 (100%)

  • Wayne Township Trustee: Cassandra Brown, 613 (100%)

  • Jefferson Township Board (3 seats): Chad Neal, 35 (100%)

  • New Garden Township Board (3 seats): Robert McGuire, 20 (100%)

  • Washington Township Board (3 seats): Kenneth Bertsch, 19 (100%)

Republican

Contested races

  • U.S. Representative, 6th District: Greg Pence, 3,717 (80.98%); James Dean Alspach, 873 (19.02%)

  • State Representative, District 56: Brad J. Barrett, 3,481 (74.14%); Mark A. Pierce, 1,214 (25.86%)

  • Auditor: Mark A. Hoelscher, 2,311 (51.36%); Kimberly Walton, 2,189 (48.48%)

  • Commissioner, District 1: Brad Dwenger, 3,137 (67.74%); Kenneth Paust, 1,494 (32.26%)

  • Council, District 3: Beth Leisure, 763 (71.78%); Carol Study, 300 (28.22%)

  • Abington Township Trustee: Steven Kaiser, 60 (77.92%); Chelsie Buchanan, 17 (22.08%)

  • Wayne Township Board (3 seats): Marilyn Sowers, 1,363 (26.47%); Terri Smith, 1,331 (25.85%); Diane Blackwell 1,267 (24.61%); Rick Galloway, 1,188 (23.07%)

  • State Convention Delegates, District 1 (6): Matt Strittmatter, 2,024 (15.22%); Jeffrey Raatz, 1,934 (14.55%); Misty Hollis, 1,853 (13.94%); Brad Dwenger, 1,685 (12.67%); Bob Bever, 1,647 (12.39%); Jane Bumbalough, 1,543 (11.61%); Stephen Rabe, 1,422 (10.70%); Trent Reichley, 1,186 (8.92%)

Unopposed candidates

  • U.S. Senator: Todd Young, 4,174 (100%)

  • State Senate, District 27” Jeff Raatz, 4,126 (100%)

  • Circuit Court Judge: April Drake, 4,033 (100%)

  • Prosecutor: Michael Shipman, 4,050 (100%)

  • Recorder: Debbie Tiemann, 4,137 (100%)

  • Sheriff: Randy Retter, 4,258 (100%)

  • Assessor: Timothy Smith, 4,000 (100%)

  • Council, District 1: Robert Chamness, 846 (100%)

  • Council, District 2: Barry Ritter, 1,316 (100%)

  • Council, District 4: Tony Gillam, 908 (100%)

  • Wayne Township Assessor: Gary Callahan, 1,880 (100%)

  • Boston Township Trustee: Sandra Nocton, 110 (100%)

  • Center Township Trustee: Vicki Chasteen, 514 (100%)

  • Clay Township Trustee: Rebecca Cool, 72 (100%)

  • Dalton Township Trustee: Lance Lumpkin, 79 (100%)

  • Franklin Township Trustee: John Roll, 119 (100%)

  • Jackson Township Trustee: Lyndon Wicker, 352 (100%)

  • Jefferson Township Trustee: Chris Lane, 312 (100%)

  • New Garden Township Trustee: Jeff Himelick, 126 (100%)

  • Perry Township Trustee: Dan Hollenberg, 72 (100%)

  • Washington Township Trustee: Ken Risch, 112 (100%)

  • Wayne Township Trustee: Susan Isaacs, 1,868 (100%)

  • Webster Township Trustee: George Haskett, 114 (100%)

  • Abington Township Board (3 seats): Douglass Toshlog, 58 (58%); Theresa Clark, 42 (42%)

  • Boston Township Board (3 seats): Jack Buckland, 95 (35.19%); Todd Lafuse, 94 (34.81%); Patricia Ravinet, 81 (30.00%)

  • Center Township Board (3 seats): Shari Markley, 474 (36.46%); Steve Poindexter, 430 (33.08%); Jodi Frech, 396 (30.46%)

  • Clay Township Board (3 seats): Jan Riggleman, 65 (54.62%); Louis Artman Jr., 54 (45.38%)

  • Dalton Township Board (3 seats): Larry Joe Black, 66 (36.07%); Craig Dishman, 60 (32.79%); Bill Sullivan, 57 (31.15%

  • Franklin Township Board (3 seats): Don Berger, 113 (36.93%); Scott Stemple, 98 (32.03%); Dale Spencer, 95 (31.05%)

  • Greene Township Board (3 seats): Benjamin Jon Alyea, 83 (35.47%); Steve Nocton, 76 (32.48%); Alex Nocton, 75 (32.05%);

  • Harrison Township Board (3 seats): Timothy Arnold, 41 (33.61%); Sara Jane Moyer, 41 (33.61%); David Bertsch, 40 (32.79%)

  • Jackson Township Board (3 seats): Bradley Bowman, 334 (44.12%); Judith Kerney, 215 (28.40%); Gil Kerney, 208 (27.48%)

  • Jefferson Township Board (3 seats): Gary Keesling, 272 (34.21%); Max Soliday, 264 (33.21%); Anne Smith, 259 (32.58%)

  • New Garden Township Board (3 seats): Jacquelyn Shroyer, 121 (100%)

  • Perry Township Board (3 seats): Daniel Kirtley, 61 (53.98%); Randall Hunnicutt, 52 (46.02%)

  • Webster Township Board (3 seats): Courtney McCauley, 93 (33.57%); Amber Buchs, 92 (33.21%); Amy Fouche, 92 (33.21%)

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