GOP Gubernatorial candidate David Williams, an attorney from neighboring Burkesville, center, and his running mate, Richie Farmer, right, shared a lighter moment with Albany native Steven Tallent last Thursday afternoon. During Williams’ and Farmer’s campaign stop at the Clinton County Courthouse, Williams pointed out to Farmer, a former University of Kentucky basketball standout, that Tallent, who was wearing a University of Louisville shirt, must have been protesting the campaign visit to Clinton County.

Williams and Farmer earned the Republican party nomination in Tuesday’s primary election, and will face incumbant Steve Beshear and his running made, Jerry Abramson, the Democratic nomineess, in the general election this fall.

Registered Clinton County voters made a stronger showing in Tuesday’s Primary election than voters across Kentucky, but still only turned out in slim numbers, with an estimated 19 percent of local eligible registered Republican voters making the time to cast ballots. Only 10 percent of local registered Democrats took time out of their schedules to get to the polls.

With only a handful of races appearing on the local primary ballot – four races for republican voters and only three races for democrat voters – just about 1,200 total voters cast ballots Tuesday, representing about 17 percent of the total 7,090 voters who were eligible to vote Tuesday. Across the state, only about nine percent of eligible voters took part in Tuesday’s primary voting process.

As was expected, it was Burkesville attorney David L. Williams, the Republican candidate seeking that party’s nomination for Governor, along with his running mate, Richie Farmer, who garnered the largest number of votes from Clinton County voters Tuesday.

Williams and Farmer finished with 1,050 votes from Clinton County republicans, far ahead of the two other slates appearing on the ballot seeking the GOP nomination, with Phil Moffett/Mike Harmon finishing local voting with 95 votes, while Barbara Holsclaw and Bill Vermillion finished with 38 votes in Clinton County.

The Williams/Farmer team also finished Tuesday’s statewide voting ahead of the other two slates as well, successfully earning the Republican nomination and the right to continue into this fall’s race for the top office in this state.

Williams, who is currently serving as Kentucky Senator and represents Clinton County as a part of his district and is President of the Kentucky Senate, and Farmer, the current Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture, will be facing incumbent Governor Steve Beshear and his chosen running mate, former Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson.

In state-wide voting Tuesday, with 94 percent of the state’s precincts reporting, the Williams/Farmer team had collected 47 percent of the votes with about 63,000 votes, compared to Moffett’s 39 percent of the votes with just over 52,000 votes. Holsclaw finished the night statewide with just about 14 percent of the votes, or about 19,000 votes.

Clinton County voters also cast votes in a handful of other races on Tuesday’s ballot.

Among those races, Clinton County voters favored Hilda Legg in the race for the republican Secretary of State nominee with 508 votes over the 378 votes received by Bill Johnson.

That edge for Legg didn’t pan out across the state when the votes were tallied, especially when the precincts from the western portion of the state began coming in Tuesday night.

Legg, who held a narrow lead for awhile as precincts began first reporting, began falling behind as the night progressed, and with 96 percent of the precincts reporting, she trailed Johnson by more than 1,000 votes – 64,362 to Legg’s 63,345 votes..

If Johnson’s lead continued to hold up until all the votes had been counted, he would face democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who defeated Elaine Walker in statewide voting.

In Clinton County, democrats favored Walker over Grimes, 76-68.

In the race for Commissioner of Agriculture nominees, republicans in Clinton County, as well as across the state, gave its party’s nod to James R. Comer over Rob Rothenburger.

Comer will face democrat Robert Farmer, who earned that party’s nod over four other hopefuls, Stewart Gritton, John Lackey, David Williams and B.D. Wilson.

A complete review of how Clinton County voters performed at the polls is shown in the table on this page. Voters are reminded that all vote totals listed here, as well those shown in the accompanying table, should be considered unofficial vote totals.

Additional state-wide election results can be seen on the Kentucky State Board of Elections web site at: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/29019/45156/en/summary.html