MARIETTA - The Cobb Board of Elections voted 4-0 Friday night to certify Tuesday's Primary Election results, and no candidates were there to contest them.

Sharon Dunn, director of Cobb Elections and Registration, said Cobb had a 22.5 percent voter turnout, with 84,681 ballots cast. There are 376,107 registered voters in the county. Before the election, Dunn had predicted a turnout of 25 to 30 percent.

Voter Registration Manager Beth Kish said, "There's a huge range for a primary. It was a little lower than we were expecting for this one."

Of the ballots cast, there were 176 provisional ballots, but election officials were only able to verify 95 as eligible voters. Those ballots were counted and included in the overall turnout numbers and results on Friday. Kish said there were not enough provisional ballots to affect any race.

There was one glitch with the reporting of the results on Tuesday night, Dunn told the elections board on Friday. Of the county's 153 precincts, 146 were unable to transmit their results via the phone line to the board headquarters, so they had to manually bring the results to the elections office and count them there. Dunn said it was caused by a power outage from Sunday's storms and only resulted in a minor delay of reporting the results.

In the Primary Election, two Republican races statewide led to a runoff, meaning no candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote. The top two Republican candidates in the running for governor - Karen Handel and Nathan Deal - will square off on Aug. 10, as will GOP candidates for Commissioner of Insurance, Mableton attorney Maria Sheffield and state Sen. Ralph Hudgens (R-Hull). In northeast Cobb, two Republicans vying for the county Board of Commissioners District 3 seat, JoAnn Birrell and Earl Stine, will also be on the Aug. 10 ballot.

Statewide, Handel received 34 percent of the vote and Deal garnered 22.9 percent, according to the Georgia Secretary of State website. But in Cobb, Handel won the race handedly, with 24,799 votes, or 41 percent, and Deal earning 12,050 votes, or 19.9 percent. Another GOP candidate for governor, Eric Johnson, received 12,492 votes, or 20.6 percent, in Cobb.

In the race for Commissioner of Insurance, Hudgens won 20.7 percent of the vote statewide and Sheffield got 19.6 percent. Similarly, in Cobb, Sheffield won 10,562 votes, or 21.3 percent, and Hudgens got 9,368 votes, or 18.9 percent.

For the District 3 Cobb commission seat, Birrell won 5,481 votes, or 35.5 percent, and Stine got 5,180 votes, or 33.6 percent.