Votes counted at Walhalla and Oakway

South Carolina election results in the Republican primary runoff give Ellen Weaver a near 64% of the vote to be declared the unofficial winner of her party’s nomination for state superintendent of education; in the Democratic runoff, Krystle Matthews, with nearly 56%, the unofficial winner to run as her party’s nominee for the U-S Senate.  In each contest, Oconee Democratic and Republican counts mirrored the outcomes in those races statewide.  There was also separate voting early last evening in Oakway where customers of the Pioneer Rural Water District chose James Stone to fill the open District Three seat on the policy board of the retail water supplier.  Stone out tallied opponent Robert Edens 30 votes to five votes.