3 of 5 supervisors unseated;
Hanger stays in Senate

Election results

Board of Supervisors:
Natural Bridge District
Maynard Reynolds 47%
Hunt Riegel 53%

Kerrs Creek District
Harvey Hotinger 34%
Rusty Ford 66%

Buffalo District
Mack Smith 53 %
Doc Wilmore 47%

South River District
Carroll Comstock 100% (unopposed)

Walkers Creek District
Buster Lewis 45%
Monty Fix 13%
Pat Patterson 42%

Rockbridge County Sheriff
Bob Day 62%
Robert Clark 38%

State Senate 24th District
Arin Sime 8%
Emmett Hanger 66%
David Cox 27%

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The turnover creates a very different board that could significantly change the county's outlook on growth. The three new supervisors -- Rusty Ford, Buster Lewis and Hunt Riegel, who campaigned on their support for controlled growth -- are considered likely to protect open spaces and farm land by pacing residential and economic growth.

Statewide, Democrats won enough state Senate seats to take back control of the chamber. In a race for the state Senate in District 24, Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger held a wide lead with more than half of the precincts reporting.

In Kerrs Creek, Ford promises voters new ideas

Walkers Creek incumbent finishes third

34-year incumbent Reynolds loses in Natural Bridge

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A big win for Day

Rockbridge County Sheriff Bob Day easily secured a fifth term tonight, winning almost 62 percent of the vote against Robert Clark, the deputy whom Day fired last April for running against him.

Day said tonight he never doubted that he would win. But he acknowledged that the campaign divided his department and affected morale.