SANDPOINT — Voters lined up early at the polls Tuesday morning to cast their votes for state and county candidates.

Bonner County results had just begun to trickle in as of press time Tuesday night, with local Republican candidates for state offices garnering the majority of early votes. As of 10:50 p.m. a total of 6,766 Bonner County ballots had been counted, primarily absentee.

Vying for the position of District 1 state senator, Republican nominee Jim Woodward and his opponent, Democratic nominee Vera Gadman, had garnered 3,607 and 1,897 votes respectively in the absentee Bonner County results. In Boundary County, the unofficial results were all in shortly after 9 p.m., with Woodward taking the lead over Gadman 3,482-765.

Republican nominee and incumbent Rep. Heather Scott and Democratic nominee Ellen Weissman vied for state representative, District 1A, with Scott trailing slightly at 2,703 votes to Weissman’s 2,794 in the early numbers. Boundary County’s unofficial results put Scott well in the lead, however, with 3,077 votes to Weissman’s 1,138.

In the race for state representative District 1A, Republican nominee and incumbent Rep. Sage Dixon and Democratic nominee Stephen Howlett garnered 2,969 and 2,520 respective early votes. Dixon’s also led the race in Boundary County with 3,129 votes to Howlett’s 1,151.

In District 7, which encompasses a portion of south-eastern Bonner County in addition to Shoshone, Clearwater and Idaho Counties, incumbents for state senator and representative offices Carl Crabtree, Priscilla Giddings, and Paul Shepherd ran unopposed.

In the crowded race for Idaho governor, Republican nominee Lt. Gov. Brad Little took the lead statewide over Democratic nominee Paulette Jordan with 183,650 votes to Jordan’s 127,564 as of 10:20 p.m. Constitutional candidate Walter Bayes and Libertarian candidate Bev “Angel” Boeck garnered 2,916 and 4,454 votes respectively, with write-in candidate Lisa Marie garnering 46 votes. In Bonner County as press time, Little had garnered 3,583 votes, Jordan 3,012 votes, Bayes 44 votes, Boeck 64 and Marie had no votes in the early results.

In the race to replace Little as lieutenant governor, Republican Janice McGeachin had the lead with 178,852 over her Democratic opponent, Kristin Collum who garnered 134,558 votes statewide as of 10:20 p.m. Locally, Collum garnered 3,005 with McGeachin at 3,602 votes in the early results.

In the race for District 1 United States representative, Republican incumbent Russ Fulcher was in the lead with 78,351 over Democratic nominee Cristina McNeil’s 38,788 statewide shortly after 10 p.m. Independents Paul Farmer, Natalie Fleming and Gordon Council, Libertarian W. Scott Howard, Pro-Life, the Constitutional candidate formerly known as Marvin Richardson, and write-in candidate Michael J. Wrath, garnered anywhere from seven to 2,365 votes each. Fulcher and McNeil were in the lead over the others locally as well, with 3,482 and 2,773 votes respectively as of press time.

In the race for secretary of state, Republican incumbent Lawerence Denney took the lead with 163,063 votes to Democrat Jill Humble’s 112,996 votes statewide as of shortly after 10 p.m. In early Bonner County results, Denney was in the lead over Humble 2,384-1,971.

Vying for the office of attorney general, Republican incumbent Lawrence Wasden was in the lead statewide over Democratic nominee Bruce Bistline 170,832-102,977 votes shortly after 10 p.m. Wasden garnered 3,756 local votes in the early results, with Bistline at 2,773.

In the race for Idaho’s superintendent of public instruction, Democratic nominee Cindy Wilson had the lead with 161,954 over Republican incumbent Sherri Ybarra’s 161,954 votes statewide shortly after 10 p.m. Locally, Ybarra took the lead over Wilson 3,561-2,977 in the early results.

Proposition 1, an initiative seeking authorize historical horse racing at locations where live or simulcast horse racing occurs, had a majority of “no” votes, 63,070 over 54,171 “yes” votes statewide as of 10:30 p.m. In Bonner County, the early results had the “no” majority as well, with 4,496 “no” votes to the 2,088 “yes” votes.

Proposition 2 was a different story, however, as the majority of statewide voters had voted “yes” on the initiative to expand Medicaid in Idaho. Statewide numbers as of 10:30 p.m. revealed 231,537 “yes” votes to the 148,710 “no” votes. In Bonner County, Medicaid expansion had the votes in the early results as well, with 3,909 “yes” votes to the 2,767 “no” votes.

Mary Malone can be reached by email at mmalone@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow her on Twitter @MaryDailyBee.