Voters at the junior fair building at the Washington County Fairgrounds cast their votes in Tuesday’s election. The facility serves as the voting location for a large portion of Marietta. (Photo by Art Smith)

Washington County residents cast votes for several candidates and levies Tuesday in the general election.

Polls closed at 7:30 p.m., and no results were available as of press time. The latest results can be found online at mariettatimes.com and in Thursday’s print edition.

Not all of the races were contested. Republican Washington County Commissioners James Booth and Charlie Schilling ran unopposed for re-election, as did Washington County Treasurer Tammy Bates, Prosecutor Nicole Coil and Engineer Roger Wright, all Republicans, and Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge John Halliday, whose race is nonpartisan.

Republican Alicia Cannon also ran unopposed for Washington County clerk of courts in her first bid for public office before, as did Republican Roxanne Cech, running for Washington County Coroner.

The race for sheriff had only one candidate after the contested March primary, Chief Deputy Mark Warden.

A vote here sign sits outside the polling location at Lighthouse Baptist Church in Vincent Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)

The only contested race at the county level Tuesday was between incumbent Recorder Tracey Wright, a Democrat who has served for 32 years, and Republican challenger Teresa Judson, who worked for eight years in the Franklin County Recorder’s Office and now works in Washington County Probate Court.

County voters weighed in on two competitive races at the state level.

Republican Washington County Commissioner Kevin Ritter ran against Democratic Athens lawyer and mediator Wenda Sheard for the 94th District seat in Ohio’s House of Representatives. The district is made up of all of Washington and Meigs counties and parts of Athens County excluding the City of Athens. Syracuse resident and Army veteran Andrea Neutzling also ran as an independent write-in candidate. If Ritter is declared the winter of the race, the Washington County Central Republican Committee will choose a person to serve the remainder of his term as a Washington County Commissioner.

Voters also had the choice between two candidates for state senator for the 30th District, which consists of Washington, Athens, Belmont, Meigs, Morgan, Monroe, Noble, Harrison and Jefferson Counties and a portion of Guernsey County. Incumbent Sen. Brian Chavez of Marietta faced Athens newcomer Ari Faber, a Democrat who has not held political office before. Voters also had several levies to vote for including a Belpre City Schools renewal levy, a Fearing Township replacement levy for fire and emergency services and additional tax levy for the village of Matamoras for current operating expenses, an additional tax levy for Grandview Township for fire and EMS and additional tax levies for maintaining and operating cemeteries in Salem and Wesley townships. Voters in Matamoras and Grandview Township also voted on a local liquor option for Par Mar Store 4 at 1300 State Route 7, Matamoras, to sell beer, wine and mixed beverages and a separate question of whether the business can sell alcohol on Sundays.

Washington County election worker Jennifer Dailey holds a sign to let voters know where to turn in their ballots at the polling place in Lighthouse Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)

Voters check in at a polling location in Vincent Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by Michelle Dillon)

Poll workers assist voters during voting Tuesday morning at the Washington County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Art Smith)

A wide variety of campaign signs lined the road leading to the Washington County Fairgrounds Tuesday morning. The junior fair building is a large voting place for Marietta. (Photo by Art Smith)

(Photo by Art Smith)