A total of 28,736 voters cast their ballots in Walker County on Tuesday, compared to 28,891 for the 2008 presidential election (then a 14-year record) and 28,850 for the 2004 election.
There were 46,320 registered voters for this election, up from 44,357 for the 2008 election.
Allison said there are 90 provisional ballots that must be ruled on by the county canvassing board on Tuesday.
Most of the races were won by a wide enough margin to not be affected by the number of provisional ballots. However, in the campaign for the Walker County Commission’s District 2 seat, Democrat Dan Wright received only 14 more votes than Republican candidate Davey Reed.
Since Allison was a candidate in Tuesday’s election, Chief Clerk Rita Taft served as acting probate judge in regard to election duties. Those responsibilities included appointing poll workers and overseeing the election returns at the Community Health Systems Activities Center in Jasper.
Taft said that aside from the returns from one polling place being a little late, the election had no problems.
“I thought everything went really well,” she said.
Allison said election officials did have to deal with the typical amount of write-in candidates, which always slows down the returns.
The following is a list of election results according to the unofficial summary report in Walker County:
Straight Party Voting
Democratic ... 3,737
Republican ... 6,546
Presidential Race
Barack Obama (D) ................... 6,551
Mitt Romney (R) .................... 21,633
Virgil H. Goode Jr.(I) ..................... 79
Gary Johnson (I) .......................... 165
U.S. Representative
4th Congressional District
Daniel Boman (D) ................... 6,902
Robert Aderholt (R) ............... 21,221
Public Service Commission
President
Lucy Baxley (D) ................... 10,130
Twinkle Cavanaugh (R)........ 17,565
Circuit Judge Place 3
Hoyt Elliott (D) .................... 15,452
Blake Payne (R) .................. 12,324
District Judge Place 2
Albert Day Legg III (D) ........... 7,182
Greg Williams (R) .................. 14,088
Herbie Brewer (I) .................... 6,696
Probate Judge
Rick Allison (D) ................. 17,162
Stephen Landrum (R) ....... 11,132
Chairman, Walker County
Commission
Bruce Hamrick (D) ........... 13,438
Billy Luster (R) ................. 14,392
Walker County Commission
District 1
Jason Akins (D) ................. 3,769
Keith Davis (R) .................. 4,175
Walker County Commission
District 2
Dan Wright (D) ................... 3,203
Davey Reed (R).................... 3,189
Walker County Commission
District 3
George Fitzpatrick (D) ........... 2,723
Bobby Nunnelley (R) .............. 3,767
Walker County Commission
District 4
Otto Tolbert (D) ................. 3,018
Steven Aderholt (R) .............. 3,896
Walker County Board
of Education, District 3
Bill Edd Gilbert (D) ............. 3,275
Mike Raines (R) ................... 3,204
Constable Beat 23
James Duncan (D) ................... 151
A. Wade Franks (R) .................. 214
Constable Beat 28
Jamie McDonald (R) ................. 344
David Grace (I) .......................... 518
Constable Beat 31
Wayne Smith (R) .................... 336
Jerry Few (I) ........................... 121
Justin Kyle Smith (I) ................ 32
Constable Beat 32
James Shedd (D) ........................ 219
Jeremy Chambers (R) ................ 374
Constable Beat 34
Derane Ingle (R) ...................... 254
David Smith (I) ........................ 133
Constable Beat 39
Joe Ferguson (R) ................... 373
Homer Estes (I) ..................... 221
Constable Beat 42
Roger Whited (D) ................... 127
Harry C. Prude (I) .................. 122