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June 26, 2012

Cole to face Bebo in election

Toni Hopper The Duncan Banner

DUNCAN — U.S. Representative for District 4 Tom Cole took the lead in Tuesday’s Oklahoma Primary Election with 87.75 percent of the vote, while his opponent, Gary D. Caissie had 12.25 percent of the vote.

On the Democratic ballot, Donna Marie Bebo of Lawton, had 58.27 percent of the votes, while her opponent Bert Smith had 41.73 percent. Cole and Bebo will face-off in the general election Nov. 6.

In the Stephens County race, Cole had 89.33 percent of the vote for all 28 precincts, while Caissie had 10.67 percent. Bebo had 55.07 percent and Smith had 44.93 percent.

There were 1,997 votes cast in the local race, with Cole getting 1,784, and Caissie, 213.

Stephens County precincts reported in the statewide race for Corporation Commissioner, that incumbent Bob Anthony secured 69.44 percent of the votes, while his challenger Brooks Mitchell had 30.56 percent, of the total 96.91 percent votes cast. In that race, there were 1,944 ballots processed.

For the in-person and mail-in absentee voting for Stephens County, results showed Cole had 90.71 percent of the vote with 256 of 350 precincts reporting by 7:20 p.m.

In the absentee results, Bebo was reported to have 58.33 percent of the vote, or 56 votes; while Bert Smith had 41.67 percent, or 40 votes in the early in-person absentee voting results.

For the Senate District 43 race, Corey Brooks of Washington will meet in a runoff Aug. 28, against Duncan candidate Peggy Davenport.

Brooks gained 34.57 percent of the votes in Stephens County, while Davenport got 29.58 percent of the votes.

Other Stephens County results are Clark Southard, also of Duncan, with 26.90 percent, and Ron Magar of Newcastle with 8.95 percent.

There were 1,643 ballots cast in the SD 43 race in Stephens County.

In the House District 51 race, Julie McKinney of Central High, led voting in Stephens County, but failed to make the runoff. Also in that race were Glen Byte of Blanchard and Scott R. Biggs of Chickasha.

McKinney managed to get 46.24 percent of the local vote.

Biggs earned 41.50 percent of the Stephens County votes, and Byte had 12.25 percent of the votes. There were 612 votes cast in Stephens County for the HD 51 race.

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