U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, as he did statewide, carried Webster County in last week’s Republican primary in his bid for a fourth term.
Mississippi’s senior senator took 781 votes here, or 48%, in the March 12 Republican primary, according to unofficial results with absentees and affidavits. Wicker was renominated with 61% of the statewide vote.
His challengers and the percentage votes they received here were Marine Corps veteran Ghannon Burton of Dennis, 42%, and state Rep. Dan Eubanks of Walls, 10%. Wicker will face Democratic nominee Ty Pinkins, who ran unopposed, in the Nov. 5 general election.
U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly of the 1st District was unopposed in the GOP primary. His general election opponent will be Democratic primary winner Dianne Dodson Black of Olive Branch. She took in 78% of the vote in Webster County against opponent Bronco Williams of Hernando, and won the Democratic nomination with about 85% of the vote districtwide.
In the U.S. presidential contest, former President Donald Trump won the Republican primary in Mississippi while President Joe Biden was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Both have secured their respective party’s nominations with their delegate counts so far.
Although four candidates were listed on the Republican ballot, Trump basically ran unopposed also because the other three had withdrawn after the ballots were set. Nevertheless, the other three candidates still received votes in Webster County. Trump carried the county with 1,564 votes, or 96%, and won 92% of votes cast statewide. He was followed locally by former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley with 32 votes, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with 18 votes and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy with three.
Webster Countians cast two write-in votes for president in the Democratic primary and five in the Republican primary.
The Republican National Convention starts July 15 in Milwaukee and the Democratic National Convention begins Aug. 19 in Chicago.
The total voter turnout for the Democratic and Republican presidential and congressional primary elections was only 28% of Webster County’s 6,408 registered voters, according to results from the Circuit Clerk’s Office. Seven mail-in absentee ballots had not been received as of March 13; any postmarked on or before Election Day and received by March 19 could be counted.
