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State Senate Ruff 4648 Wilkerson 3183 (Halifax County results only) Halifax County Sheriff Noblin 5241 Oakes 3427 School Board – District 1 Snead 453 School Board – District 4 Bailey 406 Gasperini 774 School Board – District 5 Long Wazeka (This was a write-in race; totals were not immediately available, but Long has been declared the winner.) School Board – District 7 Comer 649 Rister 558 School Board – District 8 Potts 556
*Results not official until certified by the
registrar
Challenger Stanley Noblin won the race for Sheriff of Halifax County
over incumbent Sheriff D.J. Oakes, collecting 60.46 percent of the vote
on Tuesday night and leading in twenty of the twenty-two precincts in
the county. Vote totals showed Noblin with a total vote of 5,241 while
Oakes got 3,427.
Oakes led only in Union Precinct by a vote of 106 to 92 and in the
Central Absentee (CAP) Precinct, 99-90.
"Im just so grateful to the people of Halifax County for their
support," Noblin, who ran as an independent said yesterday, "and I'm
looking forward to working with them all."
Noblin said that Oakes had approached him in the Clerk's Office on
Tuesday evening as the returns were coming in and told him that he
hoped to be able to work with him so the two could plan together to
assure a smooth transition in the office.
Noblin also said he had received over 300 calls yesterday,
congratulating him on his win. "The people of Halifax County have been
extremely gracious and helpful," he said, attributing his win to the
strong support of so many who had worked hard for him during the
campaign, including the 120 or so who worked the polls for him on
Election Day.
In another contested race — this one for the State Senate seat in the
15th District — Senator Frank Ruff carried the county on a vote of
4,648 to 3,183 or 59.35 percent over challenger Bob Wilkerson, who
currently serves as Mayor of the Town of Clarksville.
Wilkerson carried five county precincts, winning Sinai 225 to 216;
Clover 189 to 183; Meadville 146 to 57; South Boston East 221 to 184;
and South Boston West 171-129. District wide with all 113 precincts
reporting from Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Amherst,
Appomattox, Brunswick, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and Prince
Edward counties, Wilkerson got 40.93 percent of the vote with Ruff
collecting 58.99 percent.
Delegate Clarke Hogan, who was running unopposed for the 60th District
House of Delegates seat, received 6,118 votes.
All the constitutional officers were also running unopposed except for
the Sheriff, and Commonwealth's Attorney Kim Slayton White collected a
total of 6,511 votes while Clerk of Court Bobby Conner got 6,561
Commissioner of the Revenue Brenda Powell received 6,337 votes and
County Treasurer Linda Foster got 7,138 votes.
All three directors of the Soil & Water Conservation were re-elected :
Kenneth Cassada with 3,571 votes, J. Hudson Reese with 4,469 and Page
Wilkerson with 4,188.
Five County Supervisors were also up for re-election with no
opposition. ED#1 R.E. "Dickie" Abbott got 708 votes, ED#4 Doug Bowman
collected 911, ED#5 James E. Edmunds, II, 584; ED#7 Lottie T. Nunn,
1,017 and William Bryant Claiborne got 611.
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