Update at 10:28 p.m.
Republicans are keeping their hold on the governorship in Mississippi, despite facing the best-funded Democrat in more than a decade.
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday defeated Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood and two candidates who ran low-budget campaigns.
Reeves will succeed Gov. Phil Bryant, who is limited by state law to two terms.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both traveled to Mississippi in recent days to campaign for Reeves, who is completing his second term as lieutenant governor after serving two terms as the elected state treasurer.
Hood is finishing his fourth term as attorney general.
Republicans have been governor in Mississippi for 24 of the last 28 years. The last Democratic governor lost in 2003 as he sought a second term.
At the local level in Jones County, sheriff candidate Joe Berlin was the only Independent Party candidate in the county to win a race Tuesday night, but his victory may have been the biggest of all. He outdistanced Republican Macon Davis by approximately 1,400 votes, with about 1,300 absentee ballots still outstanding. Davis had defeated incumbent Sheriff Alex Hodge back in August.
Results from contested races in Jones County, with all 37 precincts reporting (excluding absentee ballots), are as follows:
State Senate District 34
Juan Barnett: 2957
Steven L. Wade: 3305
Jones Co. Circuit Clerk
Concetta Brooks: 15,305
Colenia Ross: 3698
Jones County Sheriff
Macon Davis: 8792
Joe Berlin: 10,154
Beat 1 Supervisor
Johnny Burnett: 2447
Bobby Brady Jr.: 876
Supervisor Beat 2
T. Larry Dykes: 2487
Ronnie Herrington: 2135
Supervisor Beat 3
Phil Dickerson: 3635
Donald Dale Holifield: 871
Supervisor Beat 4
David Scruggs: 3355
Bobby D. Barber: 400
Michael James: 646
Supervisor Beat 5
Travares Comegys: 2035
Chris Holifield: 550
District 1 Justice Court Judge
Marian A. Allen: 1372
C. Grant Hedgepeth: 4737
Larry Blakeney: 453
District 2 Constable
Danny Gibson: 4437
Le’ Byron O’Keith Jackson: 1790