Party nominees for four Tallahatchie County public offices will be decided during an Aug. 29 primary runoff election.
All four of the races stem from the Democratic primary. Two of the runoffs are for countywide posts. There is no local runoff in the Republican primary.
Tallahatchie County’s 21 voting precincts will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
In addition, circuit clerk offices in Charleston and Sumner will be open from 8 a.m. until noon on consecutive Saturdays, Aug. 19 and Aug. 26, to facilitate in-person absentee voting. Aug. 26 is the last date to vote by in-person absentee ballot.
The local runoffs will pit the top two finishers from the Aug. 8 primary in each of the four political races, which had three qualified candidates apiece.
In every instance, an incumbent officeholder faces an outsider challenge.
Top vote-getter in the race for chancery clerk, incumbent Anita Mullen Greenwood, 64, faces runner-up Dianne Taylor, 59. Greenwood led Aug. 8 with 48% of the vote. Taylor compiled 28%.
The incumbent coroner, Ginger Smith Meriwether, 50, squares off against a familiar opponent, Anthony “Tony” Hawkins, 53. The two also competed in a 2019. Meriwether received 40% of the vote last week to Hawkins’ 32%. Independent candidate Angela “Angie” Peters Davis, 58, awaits in November.
Incumbent District 3 Supervisor Larry Cole, 76, will duel Ira “Blue” Wrenn, 60. Cole led with 42% to Wrenn’s 37%. Republican Justin Booth, 35, is primed for the general election.
In District 5, incumbent Supervisor Eddie J. Meeks, 66, will meet Kenneth M. Jones, 51, in a runoff. The two tied with 45.5% of the vote during the primary.
