Guilford County voters may go back to the polls as Republican candidates Hank Henning and Jeremy Williams fight to represent their party in Guilford County's District 6.
Earlier this year, the North Carolina General Assembly passed plans to redistrict seats on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners. Republicans drew the new district lines. As a result, voters in the western part of the county have no representation on the Board. Neither Henning nor Williams secured 40% of votes during yesterday's primary. Henning captured a little more than 35% and Williams got just over 37%. This means a possible runoff election, probably within the next month.
A third man in the race, Tony Wilkens, pulled 27% of votes.
Democrat Dan Miller ran unopposed and will challenge the Republican candidate voters choose. Meanwhile, more voters came out to the polls than expected. According to Guilford County Board of Elections Deputy Director Charlie Collicut, a steady stream of people cast ballots Tuesday. "Looks like we're going to hit about 35% turnout during this primary. Where we saw about 39% in the 2008 primary. That translates to about 118,000 voters," explains Collicut.
Collicut says he believes voter turnout was strong because people wanted to express their views on the proposed constitutional amendment.
