By Ron Womble

rwomble@morningsun.net

Crawford County voters made their choices known, Tuesday, in a hotly contested mid-term election. A total of 12,275 voters cast ballots in the county for a turnout of 43.6%.

Two incumbent county commissioners were on Tuesday’s ballot and both retained their seats. Bruce Blair garnered 3,542 votes in the 1st District race against 285 write-in ballots cast. In the 3rd District, Carl Wood received 1,922 votes to 1,656 votes for challenger Nichole Maree Hamblin. There were 232 votes cast in that race for write-in candidates.

In the race for state representative for the 3rd District, D.J. Perry defeated challenger Isaiah Harris by 218 votes, 3,485 to 3,267. In the race for the 2nd Kansas House District, Dan Muter defeated Avery Rowland 3,424 to 1,924.

Local voters weighed in on statewide races that were still undecided late Tuesday. In the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Roger Marshall and Adam Hamilton, Crawford County went for Marshall 5,880 to 5,702 with 575 votes cast for David Graham. For the U.S. House, the Crawford County vote was 6,288 for incumbent Derek Schmidt to 5,637 for Don Coover and 256 for John Hauer. For governor, the vote was 6,556 for Ty Masterson and 5,577 for Cindy Holscher. And for attorney general it was 6,605 for incumbent Kris Kobach and 5,521 for Chris Mann.