Wyoming Primary: Park County's 2008 election results

When results come in, you'll see them on this post. I'll be adding to this page, so refresh it for updates. Park County's official unofficial results can be found here.

10:58 Woah! Looks like I dropped the ball here. Keith Goodenough and Nick Carter had a lot less hype (and far fewer obnoxious mailings) running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate than the Lummis-Gordon race, but their brawl appears to be the highlight of the evening. Right now, the two are separated by just fractions of a percentage point and some 200 votes for Carter votes. He looks to have taken Park County by 91 votes or so - they may prove decisive. Follow that race on the Secretary of State's website here.

9:57 Time to call it a night. In recap: barring a serious change when results are finalized or an independent or write-in campaign, Dave Burke has won a seat on the Park County Commission. Commissioner Bucky Hall will retain his. However, given that we still have more than two months until the general election, who knows what will happen.

Cynthia Lummis appears to have won Park County by roughly 500 votes over Mark Gordon. Follow the Lummis-Gordon-Winney-Holland race here.

Read the full election stories with candidate reactions and more details on the election in Thursday's Tribune. Goodnight, anyone who was following this live blog. Let me know if there's anything I could have done better, or, since we reporters always prefer praise to criticism, if it was helpful.

Earlier updates from the night follow...

9:41 Here we go, absentee ballots are in. Burke and Hall maintain their leads, as does Lummis. Things are winding down, I believe.

9:36 Absentee ballots still have yet to be counted... There's a bunch of them. Not sure they'll have much of an impact on, say, the commission race, unless they all go heavily in favor of Hinkle or Allshouse.

9:16 Still waiting on absentee ballots, but here's the results from Powell's city races. Since no municipal race has more than 2 candidates, the results are little more than just a poll. We'll do it again in November with these guys. But in short,
incumbents are looking good, except Mark Senn.

Mayor
Scott Mangold: 64 percent (609 votes)
Tim Sapp 35 percent (330 votes)

Councilmembers
Ward 1
Jim Hillberry: 68 percent (183 votes)
Shea Reel: 31 percent (83 votes)

Ward 2
Floyd Young 72 percent (250 votes)
Mark Senn 27 percent (94 votes)

Ward 3
Don Hillman 70 percent (186 votes)
John Sides 29 percent (77 votes)

9:09 Look like Cynthia Lummis has sewn up Park County. She's got 44 percent (2,004 votes) to Mark Gordon's 38 percent (1,734 votes).

9:01 This is everything MINUS those 1,000 or so absentee ballots. Looks like Dave Burke will join the Park County commission and Bucky Hall will keep his seat.

Burke: 26.08 percent (2,186 votes)
Hall: 21.97 percent (1,841 votes)
Hinkle: 18.65 percent (1,563 votes)
Allshouse: 16.68 percent (1,398 votes)
Whitelock: 8.66 percent (726 votes)
Wilde: 7.49 percent (628 votes)

8:56 Cynthia Lummis has expanded her lead over Mark Gordon. Lummis has 45.6 percent (1,416 votes) or Gordon 40.13 percent (1,246 votes). Winney's at 10.6 percent (329 votes), and Holland's at 3.29 percent (102 votes).

8:53 So, 18 of 29 precincts are in BUT more than 1,000 absentee ballots have yet to be counted in the results. That's a good chunk of ballots. It ain't over yet.

8:50 UPDATE: Rural Powell and Meeteetse results are in to join Cody's results. Dave Burke has pulled ahead of Bucky Hall. The two of them have separated a bit from Hinkle and Allshouse, but it's still close. 18 of 29 precincts are in.

Dave Burke: 23.65 percent (1,371 votes)
Bucky Hall: 22.59 percent (1,310 votes)
Terry Hinkle: 19.25 percent (1,116 votes)
Judy Allshouse: 18.66 percent (1,082 votes)
Margaret Wilde: 7.93 percent (460 votes)
Hank Whitelock: 7.31 perent (424 votes)

8:40 Ok, so if you haven't been following this: races are tight. Republican County Commission candidates Bucky Hall (23.5 percent), Dave Burke (22.2 percent), Terry Hinkle (20.33 percent), and Judy Allshouse (19.14 percent) are separated by 120 votes. That's with 9 precincts out of 29 counted - basically, Cody's precincts.

8:37 All ballots are at the courthouse. Just waiting for the ccmputers now.

8:28 Likewise tight is the race for the Republican nomination for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cynthia Lummis (44 percent) leads Mark Gordon (42 percent) - or 42 votes. Winney is around 10 percent, Holland at 3 percent. Again, those results are from Cody.

8:26 So, in case the below results aren't clear enough: with Cody's precincts mostly in, the county commission race is pretty tight. Hall, Burke, Hinkle, and Allshouse are separated by around 4 percent, or 120 votes. Powell could easily swing this.

8:20 County clerk Kelly Jensen says she's heard that turnout is low statewide. Going theory is that people got burned out on the hub-bub over Wyoming's unprecedented role in the presidential selection process.

8:14 Bucky Hall has the early lead. Dave Burke in second, Terry Hinkle third, and Judy Allshouse fourth. Hank Whitelock and Margaret Wilde follow by a good margin. The votes represent most of Cody.

Hall: 23.5 percent (889 votes)
Burke: 22.2 (840)
Hinkle: 20.33 (769)
Allshouse: 19.14 (724)
Wilde: 8.83 (334)
Whitelock: 5.79 (219)
8 write-ins

8:11 Nine precincts in. 25 pages of results are on the way. I believe the coming results are only for Cody. I'll get what I can.

8:07 No results yet, so I've got time to make a prediction. Relying on my rough sign-counting, Dave Burke and Terry Hinkle seem to have the most support in Powell. Of course, who knows how signs compare to results. For example, last month, somebody removed Terry Hinkle for Commission signs and planted 8 Dave Burke signs in their place. Whose yard, you ask? Terry Hinkle's own.

Another concern: some sign planters don't seem to understand that they can't vote for everyone. Spotted this a few weeks back about two block away from the Cody courthouse.
8:03 Apparently, Bill Yetter of Meeteetse launched a late write-in campaign for a seat on the Park County commission. The ad at right appeared in Meeteetse's newsletter last week. County clerk Kelly Jensen is trying to individually count write-ins this election. However, those results probably won't come tonight. We'll keep you posted.

7:52 I'm running a bit behind schedule, but here we are. I'll start writing stuff.