BREAKING NEWS: Bender Elected Sheriff; Other Local Results

Clerk Terry Payne at the tabulating machine at 8:50 p.m.

As of 9:53 p.m., 14 of Webster County's 14 precincts have delivered their ballots to the Clerk for tabulation, and 14 of 14 precincts have been tabulated, as shown below.

A total of 2,849 votes were cast in Webster County.  Here are the actual elections results released by County Clerk Terry Payne (in the contested races only--please note that for all offices except Webster Sheriff, the results are for Webster County only and do not include results from other counties):

Webster Sheriff

Rick Thomas   597

David Bender  2,012

WV House of Delegates            WV State Senate
Robert Karnes  844                   Clark Barnes            1,291
Dana Lynch     1,879                  Margaret Beckwith   1,257

U.S. President
Mitt Romney      1,708
Barrack Obama   939

U.S. Senate                            U.S. House of Representatives
John Raese           887               Rick Snuffer           915
Joe Manchin III    1,741             Nick J. Rahall II      1,768

WV Governor                          WV Secretary of State
Bill Maloney        1,017               Brian Savilla       682
Earl R. Tomblin   1,626               Natalie Tenant    1,995

WV Auditor                            WV Treasurer

Larry Faircloth    774                  Mike  Hall     832

Glen Gainer         1,791               John Perdue   1,772

WV  Agriculture Comm'r         WV Attorney General

Kent Leonhardt    772                  Patrick Morrisey        1,030

Walt Helmick       1,886               Darrell McGraw, Jr.   1,166

WV Supreme Court

John Yoder       922

Allen Loughry   732

Latisha Chafin   1,118

Robin J. Davis   1,214

Ballot Amendment (Repeal Sheriff's Term Limit)

For          880

Against    977