Election officials release unofficial results of June 23 primary

By TONY FYFFE
BSN Editor

State election officials on Tuesday released unofficial results from Kentucky’s June 23 primary election.
In local contests, Patrick Flannery of Olive Hill defeated Rita Yates of Louisa in the Republican primary for state representative in the 96th District, which includes Lawrence and Carter counties.
Flannery, an attorney, received 2,518 votes to Yates’ 1,919 votes in the two-county race, according to unofficial results. Yates won her home county of Lawrence, receiving 1,354 votes to Flannery’s 421, while Flannery won Carter County, polling 2,097 votes to Yates’ 565. Flannery will face incumbent Democrat Kathy Hinkle of Louisa in the November election. Pikeville attorney Glenn Martin Hammond beat Scott Sykes of Elkhorn City in the Democratic primary for the state Senate seat in the 31st District, which includes five counties. Hammond garnered 5,559 votes to Sykes’ 3,836 and carried all five counties.
In Lawrence County, Hammond received 553 votes to 442 for Sykes. In Martin County, Hammond got 172 votes to Sykes’ 70. Hammond received 3,475 votes to Sykes’ 2,375 in Pike County; 404 to 380 votes for Sykes in Elliott County; and 955 to Sykes’ 569 in Morgan County. Hammond will challenge Republican incumbent Phillip Wheeler, also a Pikeville attorney, in the general election. Johnnie L. Turner of Harlan won the Republican nomination for the 29th District Senate seat, receiving 3,552 votes to challenger Matthew Wynn’s 1,527. Results include 855 for Turner and 236 for Wynn in Floyd County; 1,280 for Turner and 884 for Wynn in Harlan County; 333 for Turner and 90 for Wynn in Knott County; and 1,084 for Turner and 317 for Wynn in Letcher County. Turner will face Democratic incumbent Johnny Ray Turner of Prestonsburg in November. Residents in Fallsburg in Lawrence County voted 314 to 124 to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at a “small winery or wineries” in their precinct. The issue applies to Savage Farms, which makes wine but cannot sell it at its business due to Lawrence County’s dry status.