Chris Knapp has been appointed to be the new representative for House District 53 in what Campbell County commissioners say was a close call.
Chris Knapp has been appointed to be the new representative for state House District 53.
Local candidates have reported their campaign expenses for the general election.
Terry Sjolin, Josh Dillinger and Chris Knapp were selected as the finalists for the vacant state House District 53 seat Thursday night.
Campbell County Clerk Susan Saunders is a veteran of overseeing elections and said Tuesday's record-setting one was a success for local voters and officials.
It wasn’t a surprise when three uncontested hospital board candidates were voted onto the Campbell County Health Board of Trustees on Tuesday.
By a slim margin, Wyomingites voted not to amend the state Constitution.
Campbell County voters said yes to a 4% lodging tax on Election Day by a small margin, 9,343 voters, or 50.65% in favor while 49.35%, or 9,104, voters were against it.
Political newcomer Eric Hanson took down incumbent Gillette City Councilman Bruce Brown in Ward 1 on Tuesday.
The two Republican candidates for Campbell County Commission cruised to an easy victory Tuesday night.
The Campbell County Cemetery District will welcome a new trustee after Tuesday’s election, and an incumbent was voted out.
Tuesday proved to be a good day to be a judge in Wyoming, as all judges up for retention, and specifically the five Campbell County voted on, were retained and will continue their service on the bench.
Records were set in Campbell County four years ago with the 2016 presidential election. On Tuesday, the 2020 presidential election and four contested Gillette City Council races helped break many of those records.
With seven candidates to fill four positions, the race for Campbell County School District Board of Trustees boasted of one of the most crowded fields on the general election ballot for local voters.
The Gillette City Council Ward 3 will see two familiar faces when they're sworn in in January.
The Cam-plex Wyoming Center was a little less crowded this afternoon than it was in the morning when lines reached out into the parking lot, but people have continued to turn out to vote on Election Day.
Twin lines outside Frontier and Equality halls greeted voters who arrived at Cam-plex to vote early morning before the doors opened at 7 a.m. The length of the lines indicated that was not an insignificant number of voters, as both snaked out into the parking lot and between cars.
Incumbent state Rep. Tim Hallinan, R-Gillette, beat his Democratic opponent Lynne Huskinson in Tuesday’s general election to retain his District 32 seat in the state House of Representatives.
The polls have closed, and the long lines at the Cam-plex Wyoming Center at 7 p.m. on election night four years ago were nowhere to be seen.
A rumor circulating on Facebook claims that Campbell County Commissioner Rusty Bell ordered County Clerk Susan Saunders to put up signs at polling places saying Rep. Roy Edwards, who died Monday morning, was no longer on the ballot.
Although today is officially the day of the 2020 general election, more than 10,000 people in Campbell County already have cast a ballot.
Election Day is Tuesday, and while many people have already voted early or absentee, if history is any indication, thousands of voters in Campbell County will be voting in-person.
Tuesday was the deadline for candidates to file their campaign contribution reports with the Campbell County Elections Office.
On Nov. 3, voters will decide whether four judges in the 6th Judicial District should continue to serve.
Randal Hite
Unlike candidates who filed prior to the May deadline and automatically made it onto the General Election ballot, the four Gillette City Council write-in candidates have not had as much time to campaign.
For Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center residents, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only impacted their ability to see loved ones, it also has changed the way they will participate in the upcoming general election.
This amendment will remove the constitutionally specified limit on the amount of debt a municipality can create for sewer projects and would allow the Wyoming Legislature to prescribe by law the debt limit for municipal sewer projects.
Any time the word “tax” comes up, it typically brings with it a highly energized reaction.
Colleen Faber
Joel Morgan
In their own words: Written responses from general election candidates on questions asked by News Record reporters
In their own words: Written responses from general election candidates on questions asked by News Record reporters
In their own words: Written responses from election candidates on questions asked by News Record reporters
In less than a month, voters will decide whether four judges in the 6th Judicial District should continue to serve.
Local and state political candidates have turned in their expense reports for the primary election campaign season.
A budget crisis brought on by a downturn in the energy sector compounded by the coronavirus pandemic is the top issue on the minds of the seven candidates who have filed to seek one of four seats up for election on the Campbell County School District Board of Trustees.
Here’s a list of who has filed for special district seats in Campbell County so far. The filing period for special district candidates running in the November general election opened Aug. 5 and continues through Monday. New filings are in bold.
Rep. Eric Barlow, R-Gillette, handily defeated conservative challenger Martin E. Phillips in the Republican race for Wyoming House of Representative District 3 in Tuesday's primary.
As the Campbell County Primary Election results flooded in late Tuesday night, Troy McKeown stood humbled in a room of fellow candidates as he watched the votes pile up.
A Gillette city councilman who was forced to resign two months ago tallied the most votes among council candidates on Tuesday's primary ballot.
Republican Bill Fortner won the race for state House District 52 during Tuesday’s primary election, beating the incumbent William “Bill” Pownall and John Robertson by tallying more than 50 percent of the vote.
Rep. Roy Edwards, R-Gillette, beat former Gillette mayor Tom Murphy to retain his state House of Representative seat for District 53.
The two incumbents on the county commission will be moving on to the general election.
CHEYENNE — For the first time in Wyoming history, voters will be choosing from only female candidates in the state’s two federal races in November.
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