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DAVENPORT—Over half of eligible Lincoln County voters turned out for the Aug. 2 primary election and chose six candidates to send to the November general election.

Gabe Gants and Brian Telford are running for Sheriff, Emily Lybbert Hansen and Brad Sweet are running for Treasurer and Rob Coffman and Jason Debord are running for County Commissioner.

Gants gathered over 50% of the votes in a five-man primary race for Sheriff with 2,259, while Telford had 990 votes.

Almost every municipality favored Gants. Davenport gave him 364 votes to Telford’s 238 votes. Third-place Andy Manke was fa...