Tuesday was

a busy day for voters throughout Coweta County, as two County Commission

posts and several municipal elected offices were decided in addition to

statewide and Congressional seats.

In the District

3 race for County Commission, Republican Larry DeMoss got nearly 76 percent

of the vote in his win over Democrat Willie Pritchett. DeMoss defeated

incumbent Lawrence Nelms in the August primary.

In District

2, Republican Greg Tarbutton defeated Democrat John Houston with nearly

64 percent of the vote. Tarbutton will replace Commission Chairman Jim

McGuffey, who decided not to seek another term.

With the exception

of Secretary of State Cathy Cox, who got 49 percent of the Coweta vote

to 47.5 percent for Charlie Bailey, Coweta voters overwhelmingly chose

Republican candidates in statewide races. Saxby Chambliss (U.S. Senate),

Sonny Perdue (governor), Steve Stancil (lieutenant governor), Shannon

Goessling (attorney general), Deanna Strickland (agriculture commissioner),

John Oxendine (insurance commissioner), Kathy Cox (school superintendent),

and Richard McGee (labor commissioner) all won in Coweta, most of them

Mac Collins

will continue to represent most of Coweta County in the U.S. House of

Representatives, this time in the 8th District. He racked up 80 percent

of the Coweta vote en route to an easy win over Angelos Petrakopoulos.

A small portion

of the county now lies in the 11th District, and Republican Phil Gingrey

won the overall district over Roger Kahn by roughly the same margin as

he did in Coweta, about 53 percent.

All three state

senators representing Coweta Mitch Seabaugh (28th), Daniel Lee (29th)

and Bill Hamrick (30th) were unopposed in the general election, as were

State House candidates Lynn Westmoreland (86th), Lynn Smith (87th) and

Jeff Brown (89th).

Tracy Stallings

carried 60 percent of the Coweta vote in his quest for the Post 1 seat

in the 88th State House district, but the Democrat lost overall to Republican

Mark Butler. Same for Democrat Tom Parmer in Post 2, who won Coweta but

still lost to Republican Chuck Harper.

The Coweta

homestead exemption question won by a wide margin, with nearly 82 percent

of the voters saying yes.

A total of

25,169 ballots were cast countywide, or 56 percent of Coweta's 44,882

registered voters, according to the county's Web site.