Navajo County

By Linda Kor In the Aug. 12 edition of the Tribune the results of the Navajo County elections were posted but did not include the state outcomes, thus had inaccuracies in final wins. We apologize for any problems this may have caused. In the official results of the August Primary Election, Wendy Rogers won as the Republican nominee for State Senator District 6 with 19,363 votes for a major upset over incumbent Sylvia Allen who garnered 13,349 votes. Rogers will face off against Democratic opponent Felicia French who took the Democrat win as the sole candidate with 24,441 votes. Incumbent Tom O’Halleran took the Democrat win for Congressional Representative District 1 with 47,083 votes over Eva Putzova, who garnered 33,248. He will face off against Republican Tiffany Shedd, who took 40,310 votes over fellow Republican Nolan Reidhead who garnered 33,418 votes. Mark Kelly took the win as the lone Democrat candidate for US Senate with 665,620 votes. He will face off against Republican incumbent Martha McSally who was appointed to the position in 2018 and who garnered 551,119 votes beating Daniel McCarthy, with 181,511 votes. In the State Representative District 6 race Republican incumbent Walter Blackman garnered 26,180 votes, with fellow Republican Brenda Barton earning 17,895 votes. Blackman will face Democrat Coral Evans who earned 24,035 votes as the sole Democrat contender. In the race for State Representative for District 7 Democrat incumbent Myron Tsosie garnered 19,160 votes, for a win over Arlando Teller receiving 12,872 votes. Tsosie will go up against Republican James Parks, who earned 7,328 votes against David Peelman who garnered 6,860 votes.