Rick Santorum has won Mississippi’s Republican presidential primary.
Incumbents U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker have won the Repulican nomination for the 1st Congressional District and U.S. Senate, respectively. Albert N. Gore Jr. won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

Contested results for Lafayette County are below. Results from the uncontested races will be published along with the full results in Wednesday’s edition of The Oxford EAGLE.

With 100 percent reporting, including all absentee and affidavits:

GOP Primary President

Michele Bachmann  14    0.35%

Newt Gingrich  1187       29.28%

Jon Huntsman  3      0.07%

Gary Johnson  4      0.10%

Ron Paul  281   6.93%

Rick Perry 15  0.37%

Mitt Romney 1496   36.90%

Rick Santorum  1049  25.88%

 

Senate- Republican

E. Allen Hathcock   171  4.37%

Robert Maloney  245  6.25%

Roger F. Wicker  3478  88.79%

Senate-Democrat

Albert N. Gore Jr. 436  54.57%

Will Oatis  206  25.78%

Roger Weiner 153  19.15%

 

1st Congressional – Republican

Robert Estes  485  12.30%

Alan Nunnelee 2559 64.88%

Henry Ross 884 22.41% (March 13, 2012)