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ELECTION RESULTS: Florida Primary Election, August 30th, 2016

Posted at 12:52 PM, Aug 30, 2016
and last updated 2016-08-31 08:34:18-04

Voters in Southwest Florida headed to the polls for Tuesday's Florida primary election.

Election results are posted on area supervisor of elections websites below:

LEE COUNTY

COLLIER COUNTY

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

HENDRY COUNTY

GLADES COUNTY

STATEWIDE RESULTS

Lets take a look at some of the local candidates who were running in several primaries.

The Lee County Sheriff race saw incumbent Mike Scott win in a landslide against challenger Stephanie Eller.  Sheriff Scott received 85% of the votes.  He will face James Didio, who's not affiliated with any party. 

The Lee County Supervisor of Elections race had 5 candidates facing one another, including incumbent Sharon Harrington, who led with 43% of the votes.  She will now face off with runner-up Tommy Doyle (33%) in a run-off in the general election, since neither candidate got 50% of the vote.

Candidates will also be competing to take over Curt Clawson's District 19 U.S. House seat he is vacating.  Developer Francis Rooney led that race with 50% of the votes, over Chauncey Goss (33%) and Dan Bognino (18%).

And in the U.S. Senate race, both Marco Rubio (R) and Patrick Murphy (D) earned big wins as expected in their respective parties.  The two will go head-to-head in November.