National, state, and judicial races were all on the ballot in Sebastian County Tuesday night, including Presidential primaries in both the Democrat and Republican parties.
For the Democrats, eighteen names remained on the ballot with the three top vote-getters hauling in just over 70% of the ballots cast.
Joe Biden claimed a 2731 to 1914 victory over Bernie Sanders, with billionaire MIke Bloomberg tallying 19.51% of the vote with 1486. Elizabeth Warren was a distant fourth with 667 votes for 8.76%.
Homes grown Arkansas candidate Mosie Boyd got 63 votes, technically finishing 13th in the race. Boyd got more votes than Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, who have all dropped out of the race.
As expected on the GOP side, President Donald Trump rolled through the token opposition, scoring 11,146 out of 11,524 ballots cast by Republicans. Bill Weld got 302 votes with Rogue "Rocky" De La Fuentes getting 76 tallies.
Trumps vote total was almost 4000 better than the vote total for all the Democrats combined.
There were two State Representative races, with Jim Reynolds besting sitting house member Marcus Richmond in District 21 and Jon S. Eubanks winning by a wide margin over Curtis Varnell and Shawn Bates.
In the local judge races, Greg Magness and Rita Howard Watkins are headed to a run-off for the District 12, Division 6 Circuit seat, while Dianna Hewittt Ladd won in a cake walk 12,090 top 7,137 i the District 12, Division 7 race.
Incumbent District 6 , Division 1 judge Jim O'Hern, who served a two year judgeship despite being caught up n a scandal in Little Rock involving a prostitute and methamphetamine, was unseated by Amy Grimes by a little more than an 1100 vote margin.
Check out Today in Fort Smith on Wednesday for more election results.
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