2022 Primary Election Is In The Books
The primary election for 2022 is in the books for Cocke County. A low turnout of just 30% of the voters casting ballots in Cocke County. One of the most watched races was the race for the republican nomination of Cocke County Mayor. Current Mayor Crystal Ottinger had made the decision last summer not to run for a third term. The two candidates competing in that race were current Cocke County Trustee Rob Mathis and local businessman and former County Commissioner Michael McCarter. Once the votes were tallied, Rob Mathis came away with 66% of the vote…defeating McCarter 4,479 votes to 2,303. We spoke with Rob Mathis right after he was declared the winner last night…
In the County Sessions Court Clerk race to replace longtime clerk Frankie Peachy Cody whoo is retiring…Brenda Ramsey held off Angie Mathis 4,415 votes to 2,470. Ramsey winning 15 of the 18 precincts. We spoke with her as well…
In the Cocke County Trustee race…this was the one that was wide open with five candidates vying for the office to replace Rob Mathis who was running for County Mayor…at the end of the evening Mitch Fine came out the winner in that race getting 43% of the vote with 3,013 votes. His closest challenger was Jody Lowe with 1,405 votes or 20%. Rocky Gentry came in third in the Trustee race with 16%…Eric Henderson got 12% of the vote and Melissa Goddard came in last with 9% of the vote…getting 598 of 6.977 votes cast in that race. With Mitch Fine winning the republican nomination, it assures that he will be the next Cocke County Trustee as there is no one running either democrat or independent against Fine in August.
Here is a list of the winning candidates in their categories
- CURCUIT COURT JUDGE PART 1 CARTER MOORE 6045
- CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PART 2 JIM GLASS 4700
- CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PART 3 REX HENRY OGLE 5410
- CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE PART 4 DUANE SLONE 4985
- CHANCELLOR JIM RIPLEY 3539
- DISTRICT ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES B JIMMY DUNN 5392
- PUBLIC DEFENDER REBECCA V LEE 5202
- COUNTY MAYOR ROB MATHIS 4479
- COUNTY TRUSTEE MITCH FINE 3013
- GENERAL SESSIONS JUDGE MARK STRANGE 4294
- SHERIFF CJ BALL 5156
- CIRCUIT COURT CLERK KRISTY L NEASE 5515
- SESSIONS COURT CLERK BRENDA RAMSEY 4145
- COUNTY CLERK SHALEE MCCLURE 5143
- REGISTER OF DEEDS MARK MCGAHA 5716
- SUPERINTENDENT OF ROADS DWAYNE BULLET MCCALLISTER 3657