August 2nd County General and Statewide/Federal Primary Election means Busy Ballot for Voters

Races for the Cumberland County Courthouse Offices will be decided in the August 2 election with early voting between July 13 and 28.

Also on the ballot are the Republican and Democratic primary races for statewide and federal elected offices.

Those races include the Cumberland County Mayor, Sheriff, Circuit Court Clerk, County Clerk, Register of Deeds, Road Superintendent, and County Trustee. Most of these races are already decided from the primary earlier this year while the race for Cumberland County Mayor remains contested.

The two candidates for Cumberland County Mayor include Allen Foster, a current member of the County Commission who won the Republican Primary in May and Sandra Davis, an independent who has been a school teacher since 1975 and small business operator in Cumberland County.

Allen Foster

Sandy Davis

Single Candidates for county offices include Sheriff Casey Cox, Circuit Court Clerk candidate Jessica Burgess, County Clerk Jule Bryson, Register of Deeds Judy Graham Swallows, Road Superintendent Scott Blaylock and County Trustee Kim Wyatt. All the candidates with no opposition are incumbents except Mrs. Burgess who won the primary after incumbent Larry Sherrill announced he would not seek reelection.

Find the full list of County Commission and BOE candidates here.

In addition to the County elections primaries for both the Republican and Democratic parties are on the ballot for statewide races and for US House of Representatives and Senator.

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Republican primary candidates for Governor include Diane Black, Randy Boyd, Beth Harwell, Bill Lee, Basil Marceau, Sr. and Kay White.

Democratic primary candidates for Governor include Karl Dean, Craig Fitzhugh and Mezianne Vale-Payne.

Candidates for US Senator on the Republican Ticket include Marsha Blackburn and Aaron Petigrew. Democratic Candidates are Phil Bredesen Gary Davis and John Wolf.

For the 6th District US Congressional Seat, the candidates include Dawn Barlow, Christopher Martin Finley, Peter Hefernan and Merrilee Wineinger on the Democratic ticket with Bob Crolew, Judd Matheny, Christopher Brian Monday, John Rose and “Uturn Laverne” Vivio on the Republican side.

State Senat candidates for the 15th District are incumbent Paul Bailey for the Republicans and Angela Hedgecoth for the Democrats.

One candidate appears on each ticket for the 25th District State House seat, incumbent Cameron Sexton Republican and Anne F. Quillen on the Democratic ticket.