After weeks of early voting, Lake County voters waited in lines to cast their ballots to elect Democrat Jerry Williams as the county’s first black sheriff.
Frank Mrvan held onto his seat with more than 60% of the vote against GOP challenger Barb Regnitz as part of a Democrat landslide in retaking Congress.
Statewide, Democrat Beau Bayh secured more than 50% of the votes cast in his four-way contest to be the Indiana’s next secretary of state. Both referendum questions passed by comfortable margins.
Among the other county level races, Democrats handily won the contests for county commissioner, two County Council members, auditor, treasurer and clerk of court.
Statewide races (Unofficial results)
Indiana Secretary of State
Beau Bayh, Democrat: 946,075, 51.4%
Max Engling, Republican:791,157, 43.0%
Greg Ballard, Lincoln Party: 66,952, 3.6%
Lauri Shillings, Libertarian: 36,839, 2.0%
Indiana Public Question 1: Denial of Bail
Yes: 1,000,582, 58.5%
No: 710,964, 41.5%
Indiana Public Question 2: Muncipal Judge Residency Requirement
Yes: 1,073,113, 62.6%
No: 641,622, 37.4%
County races
U.S. House District 1
Frank Mrvan (D): 131,581, 62.6%
Barb Regnitz (R): 78,673, 37.4%
Sheriff
Democrat Jerry Williams (D) 64% David K. Crane Jr. (R) 36%
County Commissioner District 1
Kyle W. Allen Sr. (D) 79.75% Will Miller (R) 20.55%
Council District 2
Darren Washington (D) 75.44% Bradley Hutchison (R) 24.56%
County Council District 3
Dwight Williams (D) 75.91% Stephen Aichner(R) 24.09%
Treasurer
John E. Petalas (D) 65.02% Kevin Deane (R) 34.98%
Clerk of Court
Mike Brown (D) 64.60% Leslie Dallner (R) 35.40%
Auditor
Gina Pimentel (D) 64.67% Charles “Chuck” Messler (R) 35.33%
