TIFTON — Elections have concluded and results have been tallied in all precincts of Tift County.

Donald Trump leads in the county over Kamala Harris in the presidential race, taking 11,496 of Tift’s votes to Harris’s 5,438.

Incumbent Austin Scott has retained his seat as the U.S. Representative for District 8. Locally, he received 12,365 votes to Darrius Butler’s 4,176, and Angie O’Steen, Republican candidate for the District 169 state representative position, received 3,085 to 578 for Democrat candidate Theresa Rewis.

Carden Summers and Jaclyn Dixon Ford, the only candidates for District 13 state senator and District 170 state representative, respectively, secured their positions with no opposition.

At the local level, all running incumbents have retained their positions whether or not they had an opposing candidate.

Of the seats that saw races, incumbent Melissa Hughes secured 948 votes over Priscilla Prince’s 653, maintaining her position as District 2 commissioner for the County Board of Commissioners, and in one of the closest races of the election, Marilyn Burks kept her seat on the Tift County Board of Education with 830 votes to challenger Ambrose King’s 756.

County residents also voted on two amendments to the state constitution, which would provide for a statewide homestead property tax exemption and create the Georgia Tax Court for handling tax dispute and appeal cases, respectively, as well as a referendum increasing the exemption from property tax for personal property from $7,500 to $20,000.

Voters elected to approve all three propositions, 9,881 of 17,088 voting in favor of the first amendment, 8,056 in favor of the second, and 9,347 in favor of the referendum.