Panola vote totals
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, November 9, 2011
With Panola County absentee ballots counted and added to precinct totals, challenger Dennis Darby had outpolled incumbent Sheriff Otis Griffin Jr. by 133 votes.
The hotly contested sheriff’s race, a rematch between Darby and Griffin of a special election last year, drew the greatest number of voting totals with 13,542 voting.
The second highest vote count was recorded in the governor’s race in which 13,377 cast ballots. The races other races for county offices, chancery clerk, circuit clerk, and tax assessor and collector also attracted over 13,000 votes.
(Vote totals also include write-ins, of which there were 11 in the governor’s race, five in the sheriff’s race.)
The three amendments for the state constitution — located at the end of the ballot — each attracted almost 13,000 voters.
The Panola County Election Commission is expected to begin counting the approximately 100 affidavit ballots at 10 a.m.
Precinct and absentee totals are as follow:
Governor
Phil Bryant 7240
Johnny L. DuPree 6126
Lt. Governor
Tate Reeves 8,322
Tracella Lou O’Hara Hill 2515
Attorney General
Jim Hood 8182
Steve Simpson 4632
State Auditor
Stacey Pickering 7127
Ashley Norwood 3453
State Treasurer
Lynn Fitch 6206
Connie Moran 6071
Shawn O’Hara 463
Commissioner of Ag./Commerce
Joel Gill 6722
Cindy Hyde-Smith 5467
Cathy L. Toole 418
Commissioner of Insurance
Mike Chaney 6,794
Louis Fondren 5491
Barbara Dale Webster 427
Public Service Commissioner, Northern District
Boyce Adams 5355
Brandon Presley 7358
Transportation Commissioner, Northern District
Ray Minor 6768
Mike Tagert 5897
State Senate, District 10
Steve Hale 8281
Vann Branch 4686
House of Representatives, District 10
Nolan Mettetal 4127
Gregg Hodges 2470
Panola County Sheriff
Dennis Darby 6835
Otis Griffin 6702
Panola Chancery Clerk
Jim Pitcock 6642
Michell Putman 6412
Panola Circuit Clerk
Melissa Meek-Phelps 8459
George Williford 2,443
Karen Waldo Brown 2258
Panola Tax Assessor and Collector
David Garner 9891
Calvin Land 3273
Panola Justice Court Judge, District One
Mike Wilson 2585
Butch Still 1130
(Wilson won 70 percent, vote totals coming)
Panola Supervisor, District Two
Vernice Avant 1,398
Bubba Terrell 603
Panola Supervisor, District Three
John F. Thomas 1,837
Boyce Crowell 1,124
Panola Supervisor, District Four
Kelly Morris 1354
Wade Meek 454
Phil Herron 492
James Perkins 488
Mike Simon 171
Panola Supervisor, District Five
Cole Flint 2006
Chris Brocato 632
South Panola School District Trustee
Odell Draper Jr. 590
Buddy Gray 1,164
Initiative # 26, Personhood Amendment
Yes 5050
No 7810
Voter ID Amendment
Yes 7696
No 5236
Eminent Domain Restriction Amendment
Yes 9480
No 3503