Boone County Election Confusion Solved

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 11:35 AM

By Coleman Smith

Boone County will have three runoff races in June.

According to Boone County Election officials the confusion regarding whether the new Arkansas Law known as the 40/20 rule will apply to the primary race for Boone County Judge has been solved.

Check out what the 40/20 rule is here.

Officials said on Wednesday that there will be a runoff in that race as well as two others and that the 40/20 rule does not apply to primary races. That means that any race with more than two candidates that does not have once candidate achieving at least 50% plus one vote of the total votes cast will come down to a runoff scheduled for June 21^st.

The three races that Boone County will have for a runoff include the County Judges Race that will be between Judge Robert Hathaway and Bobby Woods, the race for Constable North will be between Fred Starnes and Daniel J Mehn, and the race for Senate District 28 will come down to Incumbent Bob Ballinger and former State Senator Bryan King.

All other races on the Boone County Ballot had a winner determined on election night.

A full list of Boone County election Results can be seen here.