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(Note: These are Lamar County vote totals only.)

UPDATE: A review of statewide results late Tuesday indicated Casey Cagle and Brian Kemp would meet in a runoff to determine the Republican challenger to Democrat Stacey Abrams in the gubernatorial race.

Incumbent Republican Marty Harbin will meet Democrat Bill Lightle in November in the Dist. 16 state senate race.

Incumbent Republican David Knight will serve another term as Dist. 130 state representative after routing challenger Raymond Ray. There is no Democrat in this race.

And newcomer Ken Pullin rolled past incumbent Johnnie Caldwell to win the Republican nomination for the Dist. 131 house seat. He will face Democrat Chris Benton in November. Caldwell lost by nearly 1000 votes in his home county of Upson.

STATE SENATE (DIST. 16):
Bill Lightle (D): 448
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Marty Harbin (R): 861
Tricia Stearns (R): 586

STATE HOUSE (DIST. 130):
David Knight (R): 676
Raymond Ray (R): 151

STATE HOUSE (DIST. 131):
Chris Benton (D): 280
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Johnnie Caldwell (R): 284
Ken Pullin (R): 389

GOVERNOR:
Stacey Abrams (D): 470
Stacey Evans (D): 123
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Casey Cagle (R): 587
Hunter Hill (R): 229
Brian Kemp (R): 426
Clay Tippins (R): 215
Michael Williams (R): 78

LT. GOVERNOR:
Sarah Riggs Amico (D): 321
Triana Arnold James (D): 222
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Geoff Duncan (R): 250
Rick Jeffares (R): 524
David Shafer (R): 665

SECRETARY OF STATE:
John Barrow (D): 318
Dee Hawkins-Haigler (D): 137
R.J. Hadley (D): 94
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David Belle Isle (R): 285
Buzz Brockway (R): 138
Josh McKoon (R): 418
Brad Rafensperger (R): 554

The Lamar County commission voted unaninously Tuesday night to deny a request to rezone 1.2 acres at the intersection of Thomaston Street and Veterans Parkway in Barnesville from R-1 residential to C-2 commercial for a retail discount store which, by all indications, would have been a Dollar General.

Meeting coverage by Kay S. Pedrotti:

The Lamar County commission’s vote Tuesday night was unanimous to deny Donald R. Haywood’s application for a zoning change for his property at the southeast corner of Thomaston Street adjacent to highway 341. About 90 people came to the public hearing; 10 of them spoke against rezoning 1.2 acres of the Haywood land from R-1 residential to C-2 highway commercial.

Commissioner Ryran Traylor moved to accept the planning board’s recommendation that the rezoning be turned down for reasons stated by the board and relayed by Dan Gunter, planning and zoning director. Reasons given were because the applicant’s request was inconsistent with the residential area, the proposed location for a retail business would have serious access problems, other locations were available for retail development, and “the community’s character is important.” Traylor’s motion was seconded by Nancy Thrash and loudly applauded by the audience.

The speakers’ common theme centered on the preservation of the “front porch” of historic Thomaston Street and the premise that the site would become the first of a deluge of “creeping commercial” uses that would destroy the atmosphere and appeal of the city and county. Atlanta resident Lindsey Yarborough, who had extensively researched traffic statistics and other reasons not to rezone, described herself as a potential home buyer who “did not choose Thomaston Street as a place to live because it had a Dollar General on the corner, but because it didn’t.”