Two county officeholders will retain their current positions and will be joined by at least one new county official following Tuesday’s primary election.

Presiding Commissioner Arden Engelage and Treasurer Gene Cornell each won their re-election bids and will be sworn in to new terms during a ceremony in January. Both are unopposed in November’s general election. 

Joining them will be Brenda Eggering, who topped incumbent Jerri Jordan in the circuit clerk’s race.

In the other contested county races, Deborah Engemann won the Republican nomination for recorder of deeds, while Michelle Walch earned the Democratic nod. 

Engemann and Walch will square off in November.

The 99th District House of Representative race featured a tight battle in Warren County between Bart Korman and Jan Sutherland, but Korman won in a landslide in the Montgomery County portion to earn the win.

The county voter turnout was reported at 29.82 percent, matching the prediction submitted by County Clerk Barb Daly to the state. According to unofficial results, 6,399 of the county’s 21,461 registered voters casted a ballot.

Daly complimented her staff and others for their assistance throughout Election Day.

“The whole election process is not possible without my judges, my girls and my helpers,” Daly said. “Everything ran relatively smoothly. Everything went fine.”

Unofficial totals by precinct are posted on the county’s Web site at www.warrencountymo.org.

County Races

In a three-way race for presiding commissioner, Engelage received 2,167 votes, or 42.66 percent to win a second term by 219 votes. Former Southern District Commissioner Randy Lewis finished with 1,948 votes, or 38.35 percent, while Tom Hoeft had 965 votes, or 19 percent.

In the circuit clerk’s race, Eggering amassed 2,617 votes, or 52.54 percent, while Jordan got 2,068 votes, or 41.52 percent. Meg Lefferdink, who had announced two weeks before the election she was withdrawing and throwing her support behind Eggering, received 296 votes. Her name remained on the ballot due to the lateness of her decision.

Engemann won a three-way race for the Republican nomination for recorder of deeds. She collected 3,074 votes, or 64.08 percent. Linda Gant received 891 votes (18.57 percent) and Lynn Bernard had 832 (17.34 percent).

In the Democratic race, Walch collected 462 votes (62.77 percent) to Stuart Schwartz’s 274. 

For treasurer, Cornell received 2,779 (56.31 percent) and topped challenger Jackie Stewart, who finished with 2,156 votes (43.69 percent).

State Races

In his second attempt for the 99th District House seat, Korman came out on top this time. He collected 3,285 votes overall, or 45.5 percent, and topped Jan Sutherland (2,425; 33.6 percent) and Rick Smith (1,510; 20.9 percent).

Sutherland, who was attempting to replace her son in the seat, had 2,077 votes in Warren County, followed by Korman’s 1,906 and Smith’s 1,100.

In Montgomery County, Korman had 1,379 votes compared to Sutherland’s 348 and Smith’s 410.

The 99th District coverage nearly all of Warren County and a large portion of Montgomery County.

In the hotly contested race for the Republican nomination for the 26th District state Senate seat, Brian Nieves received 46.61 percent, or 2,450 votes, in Warren County to beat out challengers Dick Stratman (26.39 percent, 1,387), Jack Jackson (22.26 percent, 1,170) and Donald Meyer (4.74 percent, 249).

Nieves will face George “Boots” Weber, a Democrat, and Richard E. Newton, a member of the Constitution party, in November.

The 26th District covers all of Warren and Franklin counties and a portion of St. Louis County.

Blaine Luetkemeyer, current U.S. representative in Missouri’s 9th District, won the Republican primary race in the county with 4,043 votes, or 80.04 percent.

In the U.S. Senate race, county voters chose Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan as the Republican and Democratic candidates, respectively. Blunt received 3,315 votes, or 65.42 percent, while Carnahan had 682 votes, or 87.44 percent.

Unopposed Races

Four county officeholders had no opposition in this week’s primary election or in November’s general election. They are Associate Circuit Judge Wes Dalton, County Clerk Barb Daly, Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wright and Collector Linda Stude. 

All four are Republicans.