The voters of DeKalb County elected Scott Cantrell as Assessor of Property Thursday.
A total of 2,444 voters took to the polls in the August 2 election, with 1,525 casting ballots on election day and 919 during the early voting/absentee period.
Cantrell clinched the Democratic party nomination in March when he defeated 16-year incumbent Timothy “Fud” Banks 833 votes to 418.
Cantrell faced Republican nominee Mason Carter in the general election last week, where he garnered 62.9 percent of the vote to win.
Voters cast 1,506 ballots in Cantrell’s favor, while Carter took 36.9 percent of the electorate with 884 votes
 Cantrell carried nine of the 16 precincts in the county, including Belk, Blue Springs, the Church of Christ Annex, Courthouse, County Complex, Johnson's Chapel, Keltonburg, DeKalb Middle School, and Snow Hill.
Carter took the vote in seven precincts including Alexandria, Cherry Hill, Dowelltown, Edgar Evins State Park, Liberty, Temperance Hall, and Rock Castle.
Cantrell had the advantage going into the election, with a majority of early and absentee ballots cast in his favor.
Carter received 627 early votes, and 257 absentee votes, compared to 861 early and 645 absentee for Cantrell.
Cantrell will take office on Sept. 1.
Meanwhile, Kevin Hale gave long-time incumbent W.J. (Dub) Evins III a run for his money for the 5th District school board seat, but Evins held out for a win with 55.8 percent of the vote.
 Evins received 261 votes to Hale’s 205, and carried the two 5th District precincts,  winning 112-88 at the county complex and 37-33 at Johnson's Chapel.
Evins also took the lead in early/absentee voting, with 112 absentee ballots compared to 84 for Hale, and took early voting 149-121.
Doug Stephens received 173 complimentary votes in his unopposed bid for the 6th District school board seat.
In the five uncontested constable races, Wayne Vanderpool earned 232 votes in the 3rd District. Paul Cantrell clinched the Fourth District constable race with 235 complimentary votes. Mark Milam received 307 complimentary votes in the Fifth District. Carl Lee Webb garnered 189 votes in the Sixth District, while Johnny King earned the Seventh District constable seat with 186 complimentary votes.
 A mayor and two aldermen were elected in the Dowelltown city election.
Mayor Gerald Bailiff received 51 votes in the uncontested mayoral race, and Joe  Bogle won an alderman seat with 45 votes.
Michael Kevin Kent qualified as a write-in candidate and won another alderman position with eight votes.
Three aldermen were elected in the Liberty city contest.
Dwight Mathis, Paul Neal, and Jason Ray all ran unopposed, with Mathis and Neal taking 64 complimentary votes and Ray receiving 57.
DeKalb County voters gave incumbent Congresswoman Diane Black the nod over challenger Lou Ann Zelenik In the Republican primary race for the 6th District U.S. House of Representatives nomination.
Black took 67 percent of the vote with 763 cast in her favor, while Zelenik received 375 votes in DeKalb County.
Black also won handily in overall voting, tallying 44,933 votes to 19,831 for Zelenik in the district.
Terri Lynn Weaver, vieing for a third two-year term, received 802 complimentary votes in DeKalb running unopposed for the Republican nomination 40th District State Representative.
Weaver will square off with Democratic nominee Sarah Marie Smith in November.
Smith defeated Wesley Duane Hodges with 67 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary.
Smith received 399 votes to Hodges' 125 in DeKalb county.
Weaver received 5,492 complimentary votes district-wide.
Smith defeated Wesley Duane Hodges for the Democratic nomination in the 40th, 2,036 to 491.
After last year’s shake-up, the 40th District includes Smith and Trousdale County and parts of DeKalb and Sumner Counties.
Incumbent 46th District State Representative Mark Pody earned 178 complimentary votes in DeKalb County.
Pody was unopposed in the Republican primary, and he will again run unopposed in November.
Bob Corker won the Republican senatorial nomination in DeKalb County with 81.3 percent of the vote, with 879  local voters in his corner.
Challenger Zach Poskevich received 100 votes.
Fred Anderson took 36 votes, Mark Twain Clemens gathered 45, and Brenda S. Lenard got 19.
In the Democratic race for the senate, Mark Clayton gained 225 votes in DeKalb County for 34 percent of the total.
In a strange twist Friday, the Tennessee Democratic Party announced they were disavowing Clayton's nomination because he is the Vice President of Washington, D.C. based Public Advocate of the United States, which doesn't believe in gay marriage.
The party’s decision to disown Clayton will apparently not affect his run for the office.
Actress Park Overall took 157 votes in the race, Dave Hancock received 112 votes, Gary Gene Davis 66, Larry Crim 46, Benjamin Roberts 33, and T.K. Owens 20 votes.
Local voters chose to retain Jeffrey S. Bevins as a Judge of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle Division.
A total of 813 DeKalb Countians voted to retain and 600 cast ballots to replace Bevins.
Roger A. Page was retained as a Judge of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Western Division.
Voters elected 788-589 to retain Page.