Sumner Shortcuts

Well that was fun.  We should hold these huge elections more often.  It’s fun standing in line for two hours to have a chance to push some buttons on an electronic device that appears to have been built in 1982.

But seriously, I hope everyone had a good election day, even if your favorite candidate didn’t win.

Everyone knows our next President will be Barack Obama.  Again, regardless of your politics and candidate of choice, I think we can all be impressed and inspired by the fact that this country just elected an African American to the highest office in the land.  While plenty of racism still exists (especially here in Tennessee), it is a good day for racial equality.

When I went looking for results this morning on the local races, I had a tough time finding them.  So once I did find them, I figured it would be a good thing to publish them here to make it easier for my fellow Sumner citizens to find it (the Vote Sumner TN website doesn’t even have anything up about results, oy).

So, without further ado, here are our local election results:

U.S. Senate:
Lamar Alexander (i) - R    1,556,496
Robert Tuke - D    750,002
Edward Buck - I    31,176
Christopher Fenner - I    10,826
Daniel Lewis - I    9,183
Chris Lugo - I    8,974
Ed Lawhorn - I    8,841
David Gatchell - I    7,489

U.S. House District 6:
Bart Gordon (i) - D    193,854
Chris Baker - I    66,626

State Senate District 18:
Diane Black (i) - R    50,893
Jim Hawkins - D    27,235

State House District 45:
Debra Maggart (i) - R    17,413
Andy Allman - D    9,362

Sumner County Executive:
Anthony Holt - R    29,841
Steve Sudbury - D    15,811
Kenny Pierpaoli - I    7,195
Phillip Hight - I    1,347

Sumner County commission, district 2:
Shawn Utley - R    2,315
Larry Hinton - I    2,108

Hendersonville alderman, ward 2:
Scott Sprouse (i)    1,142
Pamela Tidwell    956

Hendersonville alderman, ward 3:
Chris Gallaher    1,496
Mark Skidmore     1,121

Hendersonville alderman, ward 5:
Thomas Elsten (i)    2,416
Robert Jennings     2,380

Hendersonville alderman, ward 6:
Jim Hoback    1,359
Brian Belcher (i)    1,070

White House alderman, ward 3:
Mike Arnold (i)    311
Stacy Saunders     246

Gallatin alderman, district 1:
Anne Kemp (i)    648
Tim Hale    444
Randy Lucas    118

Gallatin alderman, district 2:
Dale Bennett (i)538
Steve Camp    489

Gallatin Alderman At Large:
Tom Garrott    3,065
Steve Fann    2,978
Albert Strawther 1,944
W.H. McKinney     655

Westmoreland Alderman At Large:
Mike Carter (i)        471
Wendell Holmes        412
James Brian Smalling (i)358
Ricky Ray Cline        207
Raymond Miller        193
Edwin Robertson        135

Liquor by the drink in Goodlettsville (Sumner County portion):
For     1,788
Against 1,004

If you’re interested in further exploring local Tennessee election results, you can stroll over to this Tennessean page.

Congratulations to everyone who won–please don’t screw up.