A total of 2,243 voters cast ballots in the primary election in Geary County on Tuesday.

There were no contested local races.

In the Republican primary for Governor 680 in Geary County voted for Kris Kobach while 544 cast ballots for Jeff Colyer. There were seven candidates in that race, with Ken Selzer finishing third in  the county’s totals with 142 votes, Jim Barnett fourth at 121, followed by Patrick “PK” Kucera with 20, Tyler Ruzich with 6 and Joseph Tutera Jr. 3.

In the Geary County vote in the Secretary of State’s race, Randy Duncan was the top vote getter with 426 votes, while Dennis Taylor had 381, Scott Schwab 288, Craig McCullah 181 and Keith Esau 102 votes.

There are 16,699 registered voters in the county, meaning 13.4% went to the polls on Tuesday. But that number is a little misleading. According to Geary County Clerk Rebecca Nordyke 36.4% of the registered Republican voters and 27.1% of the registered Democratic Party voters cast ballots. “We’ve got about a third of our registered voters who are unaffiliated, so obviously lots of them don’t show up for this primary election.” Nordyke felt many of them might vote in the November general election. “But they don’t want to choose a party and so they don’t come out to be part of the party nomination process.”

Statewide in the Democratic primary for Governor, State Sen. Laura Kelly won the nomination. The Republican primary for Governor had not yet been decided, with Jeff Colyer and Kris Kobach in a tight battle.

Scott Schwab won the Republican primary for Secretary of State. He will face Democrat Brian McClendon in the November general election.

In Geary County incumbent 1st District County Commissioner Ben Bennett is unopposed. He received 668 votes. Lonnie Clark and Dave Baker are unopposed in the 65th District House and 68th District races respectively. In Geary County alone Clark received 725 votes while Baker received 627 votes.