Results of a special primary election in Schuylkill and Carbon counties are official.
Election bureau officials and commissioners in both counties signed off on the voter certification Friday morning and emailed the official tallies to the Luzerne County Election Bureau, which will add the numbers to its previously certified vote.
According to Carbon County's certified numbers, Democrats in the Beaver Meadows and Banks Township sections of the Hazleton Area School District went for retired McAdoo-Kelayres Elementary School Principal James Chapman in a big way. Chapman came away with nearly 21 percent of Carbon County's Democrat vote with 108 ballots.
Carmella Yenkevich took the second-highest number of Carbon County Democrat votes with 103.
Clarence John is third place with Carbon County's Democrats, collecting 79 votes, followed by Robert Mehalick, who garnered 71 Carbon County Democrat votes.
Republicans in Carbon County gave Chapman 35 votes; Mehalick, 34; and Yenkevich, 33.
The fourth-place spot on Carbon County's Republican ballot was split in a three-way tie with Jared O'Donnell, John and Fred Mariano garnering 21 votes each.
Carbon County Election Bureau Director Lisa Dart said there is no need for a tie-breaker to decide the fourth-place tie.
"There doesn't have to be a (tie-breaker) drawing because the results are added to the Luzerne and Schuylkill County numbers," Dart said.
Schuylkill County's Democrats also turned out for Chapman with 130 votes.
Schuylkill Democrats also favored John, giving him 130 votes to tie Chapman's Schuylkill tally.
Yenkevich came in third place among Schuylkill County Democrats with 129 votes, followed by Mehalick, who collected 119 ballots from Democrats in Schuylkill County.
On Schuylkill County's Republican ballot, O'Donnell collected the highest number of votes with 160. John came in second with 157, followed by Chapman with 152 and Mehalick at 141.
Combined with the previously certified Luzerne County vote, the top four candidates on the Democrat ballot would be Chapman with 2,004; Mehalick, 1,945; John, 1,862; and Yenkevich, 1,625.
On the Republican ticket, the top four candidates are Mehalick, 1,651; O'Donnell, 1,618; Chapman, 1,544; and John, 1,475.
The top four vote-getters on each ticket, Democrat and Republican, will advance to the General Election in November.