Results from Last Night's Primaries

Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2026 10:43 am

The primaries for this year’s local White County elections are over. Below is the list of candidates and referendum results for viable categories, but there is some context first. The Expositor has been asked questions like, “Who won the Sheriff race?”, but in the primaries, the votes were exclusively for the primary nominee, not for the final election. That vote will take place in August. For categories with only one candidate per party as an option in the primary, the winner would be that default candidate. This also applies to categories where there were two candidates, but the category allowed two selections.

The two most anticipated categories in this primary election were the County Executive race with Kyle Goff and Denny Wayne Robinson, and the Sales Tax Referendum.

Kyle Goff won the County Executive primary, meaning he will go up as the Republican candidate in the August election. The exact voting percentages are represented below.

For the second time, the Sales Tax Referendum failed, albeit this was a closer vote than it has been in the past.

The following are the voted upon categories and percentages for votes. Any category not included below is because there were no candidates qualified under that category. It should also be noted that Commission Districts were all “Vote for Two” as categories. Anyone who wishes to see the full report for the ballot can find it under “Election Results” on the whitecountytnvotes.gov website.

County Executive: