Last week's primary runoff election for congressional candidates resulted in the same candidates carrying Webster County as did in the first primary.
In the 1st District runoffs on April 1, Glenn McCullough Jr. garnered 59 percent of the votes cast in the Republican primary. Southaven Mayor Greg Davis defeated McCullough 51 percent to 49 percent districtwide to win the Republican nomination.
On the Democratic side in the 1st District, Travis Childers of Booneville received 61 percent of the vote in Webster County. He won the Democratic runoff by defeating state Rep. Steve Holland 57 percent to 43 percent districtwide.
In the Republican runoff in the 3rd Congressional District - which includes Maben - Eupora native Charles Ross received 20 of the 26 votes cast in that precinct. However, Pearl attorney Gregg Harper defeated him districtwide with 57 percent of vote.
Harper faces Democrat Joel Gill in the general election Nov. 4. The winner will succeed Chip Pickering.
McCullough, Childers and Ross also received the majority of voters here in their respective races in the first primary on March 11. Only 999 of Webster County's 7,579 registered voters turned out for the runoff election, or 13 percent.
Davis and Childers, along with independent Wally Pang of Batesville and the Green Party's John Wages of Tupelo, will move on to the general election. The winner will serve a two-year term starting in 2009.
They will also be running in the April 22 nonpartisan special election to fill the congressional seat through the end of this year. The post became vacant when Roger Wicker, the incumbent, was appointed to fill Trent Lott's Senate seat.
The names of McCullough and Holland also will appear on the special election ballot, but they say they aren't active candidates, according to published reports. The circuit clerk's office will be open until noon the next two Saturdays for absentee voting in the special election.
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