The Tuesday’s general election is in the books. The polls closed at 7 p.m. and the Barton County Clerk’s office started continually updating posted results throughout the evening.
County Clerk Donna Zimmerman said voter turnout was heavy. Her office reported that of the 17,229 registered voters in the county, 12,143 voted, or 70.48 percent.
Of that total, 2,733 were advance votes.
 However, Zimmerman noted, the numbers reported Tuesday are unofficial. The Barton County Commission will meet as the Board of County Canvassers at 8 a.m. Monday in Zimmerman’s office to canvass ballots and finalize the votes.
Below are the election results posted by the County Clerk’s Office and the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office as of presstime Tuesday night.  The (I) stands for incumbent and I stands for Independent.

President of the United States                           
Barrack Obama and Joe Biden – 2,693
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan – 9,132
Baldwin and Martin (Reform Party) – 47
Johnson and Gray (Libertarian Party) – 138

U.S. House of Representatives First District                          
Tim Huelskamp –  10,375 (unopposed)
Districtwide results unknown at presstime.

Sheriff
Brian J. Bellendir, Great Bend, R (winner of the Republican primary) –  8,656
Greg Armstrong, Great Bend incumbent/write-in, R – There were 2,586 write-in ballots cast, but the results from Zimmerman’s office didn’t break them down as to individual candidates, so there may have been other names written in besides Armstrong’s.            
                                 
Barton County Commissioner
Second District                           
Commission Chairman Homer Kruckenberg, I (He didn’t run in the primary) –  2,157
                                 
Barton County Commissioner
Third District            
 Don Davis, Great Bend, R –   1,450 (unopposed)    
                                 
County Attorney
Douglas Matthews, Great Bend (I), R – 10,051 (unopposed)

 County Clerk
 Donna Zimmerman, Great Bend (I), R –  11,116 (unopposed)
    
Register of Deeds                
Pam Wornkey, Ellinwood, R –  10,530 (unopposed)
                                                                                         
Treasurer
Kevin Wondra, Great Bend (I), R – 10,280 (unopposed)                                          
 
District Judge Division 2
Barton County
 Steve Johnson, Great Bend, R –  10,582 (unopposed)

District Judge Division 3
Barton County
Mike Keeley, Great Bend (I), D –  9,871 (unopposed)
                                 
Barton County Commissioner
Third District            
 Don Davis, Gre
 
State House of Representatives
109th District
Barton County
Troy L. Waymaster, R – 940 (unopposed)
 Districtwide results unknown at presstime.

State House of Representatives
112th District
John Edmonds, Great Bend, R –  6,528
Frank McKinney, Great Bend, R (write-in) – there were 132 write-in ballots, but the results from Zimmerman’s office didn’t break them down as to individual candidates, so there may have been other names written in besides McKinney’s.            
Steve Muehleisen, Great Bend, D –  2,505
All of the district falls within Barton County.

State Senate 33rd District
Barton County
Mitch Holmes, St. John, R –  10,177 (ran unopposed)
 Districtwide results unknown at presstime.
 
There were also township trustee and township treasurer elections in each of the following townships elected: Albion, Beaver, Buffalo, Cheyenne, Clarence, Cleveland, Comanche, Eureka, Fairview, Grant, Great Bend, North Homestead, South Homestead, Independent, Lakin, Liberty, Logan, Pawnee Rock, South Bend, Union, Walnut and Wheatland.
Vote total information came from the Barton County Clerk’s Office and the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office – bartoncounty.org and sos.ks.gov.