County vote: Jeff Monroe wins Randolph County convincingly over John Jacobs
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While it doesn’t assure him the Republican nomination for the District 37 State House of Representatives seat, Jeff Monroe’s performance among Randolph County voters in Tuesday’s primary runoff puts Randolph County Schools superintendent John Jacobs in a big hole.
Monroe decisively won among county voters, winning here by almost a 60-40 margin. The Five Points mayor drew 1,366 votes to Jacobs’s 892.
That means that most voters who sided with Wadley mayor Donna McKay in the May primary threw their support behind Monroe.
The three candidates dueled to an almost even three-way split in May, with McKay finishing a close third and out of the runoff. But with basically a third of the votes available, Monroe almost doubled his share of the ballots while Jacobs finished just seven percentage points higher than in May.
Monroe also carried Chambers and Lee Counties in the primary, so Jacobs has some ground to make up among those voters to claim the nomination.
The winner of the Republican primary will face Democrat Michelle French in the November general election.
The Leader will have updated articles on the House District 37 race as results come in from elsewhere in the district.
In other statewide runoff races county voters backed:
- John Wahl (62.7 percent) over Wes Allen (37.3 percent) for Lt. Governor
- Barry Moore (61.1 percent) over Jared Hudson (38.9 percent) for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Tommy Tuberville
- Jay Mitchell (53.2 percent) over Katherine Robertson (46.8 percent) for Attorney General
- Corey Hill (58.3 percent) over Christina Woerner McInnis (41.7 percent) for Agricultural Commissioner
- Jim Zig Zeiglar (61.4 percent) over Chris Beeker (38.6 percent) for Public Service Commission
