Two precinct races in the Wood County Republican primary will be decided in a runoff scheduled May 28.

Randy Dunn and Justin Bowring led the three-way race for the party’s nomination for Precinct One county commissioner. Incumbent Virgil Junior Holland placed third.

Dunn received 931 votes, Bowring 886 and Holland 828.

In the race for Precinct Two constable, Bobby Tucker and Joshua Davis advanced to the runoff. Tucker polled 756 votes, Davis 590 and Stephen Nichols 479.

The winner will replace Constable Kelly Smith, who did not seek reelection

The winners of the two runoffs will have no Democratic opponent in the November general election.

Robert Holland won the Precinct One constable’s race with 2,500 votes to 796 for LaDawn Foley-McGee. He also has no Democratic opponent and will replace Steve Bowser, who did not seek reelection.

Incumbent Precinct Three Commissioner Mike Simmons won his primary challenge with 1,397 votes to 655 for David Eishen. Simmons will face Democrat Madeline Gibson in November.

Wood County voters helped send Cole Hefner back to the statehouse for a fifth term.

The representative from Mt. Pleasant earned 6,014 votes in Wood County to 1,554 for Jeff Fletcher and 901 for Dewey Collier.

Across the Fifth District, Hefner received 20,006 of the 28,659 ballots cast, just shy of 70%. He won every county, including Camp, Rains, Titus, Upshur and a small section of Smith.

Sheriff Kelly Cole and District Judge Brad McCampbell had no opposition for a second term, while Angie Luman was the only candidate to replace Carol Taylor as the county tax assessor-collector. Luman is a chief deputy in the office

Constables John McQueen is Precinct Three and Chase Glover in Precinct Four also drew no opponents to serve a second term.

County party chairs Kathy Wakeman (Republican) and Judy Traylor (Democrats) were also reelected without opposition.

In the presidential primaries, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump earned their parties’ nominations easily in Texas.

Trump polled 7,612 Republican votes, or almost 86%, in the county.

Biden took 599 votes in the Democratic primary for 88.7%.

County voters also followed the state in renominating Ted Cruz for U.S. Senator with 93.3%, or 8,115 votes.

His Democratic challenger will be Colin Allred who garnered 366 votes in Wood County, or 56.6%.

Congressman Lance Gooden of Terrell had no opposition in the primary for a fourth term and will face Democrat Ruth “Truth” Torres in the general election.

There were 9,615 votes cast in the two primaries, which is 28% of the registered voters in the county.

Complete election results can be found under the elections department on the mywoodcounty.com website.

Early voting for the runoff will be conducted May 20-24, Monday through Friday, at the county elections office in Quitman.