In the local Henderson County election for County Commissioner, Chuck McGrady defeated Henderson County Board Chairman Grady Hawkins. McGrady received 53% of the votes, 4,646, to Hawkins 38 percent, or 3,358. This was a big election up set for Hawkins, the current Chairman of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners. McGrady faces no opposition in the November 2nd general election.

McGrady is a past-president and board member of the national Sierra Club, and a former Henderson County Planning Board Chairman who owns and manages a Tuxedo summer camp. Hawkins spent the past eight years on the board, four and a half as chairman, and is a retired Air Force colonel.

Keever�s campaign headquarters was packed with supporters cheering as each election return was posted on the election return board in her campaign headquarters. Keever showed a strong lead over Morgan in the first election returns reported, and continued to stretch out her lead throughout the primary election night. Keever, pictured above while addressing her cheering supporters, said, �This is the beginning of our campaign to bring a change to Western North Carolina and Washington D. C. It is time for the people of Western North Carolina to have a congressman who will protect their jobs from being out-sourced over seas, and who will fight to have public education funded on the level that it needs to be funded so that, indeed, no child is left behind.�

Keever is a native of Western North Carolina, and was a Buncombe County schoolteacher for 25 years. A mother of two and a recent widow after 34 years of marriage, Keever has served as a Buncombe County Commissioner for the past twelve years. Keever�s recent announcement of her campaign fundraising success, during which she raised over $400,000 from over 2,000 individual supporters, has caught the attention of many of the area�s seasoned politicos. Keever has received endorsements from top WNC Democratic elected officials, including Asheville Mayor Charles Worley, Buncombe County commissioners Bill Stanley, David Young, and David Gantt, and NC State Senator Martin Nesbitt.

Additional State Wide and Local Election Results:

US CONGRESS DISTRICT 11, Patsy Keever DEM, 26,202, 81%
US CONGRESS DISTRICT 11, Clyde Michael Morgan DEM, 6,042, 19%

COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5

REP - Jeff Hart, 787, 9%
REP - Grady Hawkins, 3,358, 38%
REP - Chuck McGrady, 4,646, 53%

COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE (THORNBURG), Barbara Jackson UNA, 226,900, 37%
COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE (THORNBURG), Alan Thornburg UNA, 213,121, 35%
COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE (THORNBURG), Marcus W. Williams UNA, 102,019, 17%
COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE (THORNBURG), Marvin Schiller UNA, 74,822, 12%

GOVERNOR, Mike Easley DEM, 375,086, 85%
GOVERNOR, Rickey Kipfer DEM, 64,794, 15%

GOVERNOR, Richard Vinroot REP, 107,493, 31%
GOVERNOR, Patrick J. Ballantine REP, 100,758, 29%
GOVERNOR, Bill Cobey REP, 95,936, 27%
GOVERNOR, Dan Barrett REP, 18,846, 5%
GOVERNOR, Fern H. Shubert REP, 14,263, 4%
GOVERNOR, George W. Little REP, 13,272, 4%

US SENATE, Richard Burr REP, 293,922, 88%
US SENATE, John Ross Hendrix REP, 24,930, 7%
US SENATE, Albert Lee Wiley, Jr. REP, 14,297 4%

For complete Henderson County election returns and results, Henderson County Election Results and Returns

For complete state wide election results, Election Results

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