Former City Council member and Democratic nominee Joe Brown took the Shelby County early vote by a wide margin in his bid to become the county’s next General Sessions Court Clerk in the first Thursday, Aug. 6, election results.

The early vote totals, excluding the absentee vote, shows Brown winning handily over former Probate Court Clerk and Republican nominee Paul Boyd with election day results and the absentee results still to come.

Brown had 41,305 in the early vote compared to 25,185 for Boyd.

In other races, incumbent Shelby County Schools board member Scott McCormick lost the early vote to challenger Sheleah Harris in the race for the District 5 school board seat.

Harris had 3,602 votes, McCormick with 2,132.

Other early vote results for the county show presumptive Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bill Hagerty took the county’s early vote with 13,663 of the ballots over Manny Sethi with 5,545.

In the Democratic primary, where the county’s early vote turnout was higher, Memphian Marquita Bradshaw took the early vote with 19,213 to 10,724 for Robin Kimbrough and 5,243 for James Mackler of Nashville. The early vote results mirrored the statewide partial results in the primary.

In the primaries for the open State House District 97 seat, John Gillespie has a big lead over Brandon Weise in the Republican primary and Gabby Salinas was leading the Democratic primary early vote over Ruby Powell-Dennis and Allan Creasy in that order.

In State House District 99’s Republican primary, incumbent Tom Leatherwood took the early vote with 3,072 to challenger Lee Mills’ 1,525 votes.

In the Democratic primary for state House District 90, Torrey Harris took the early vote with Catrina Smith and Anya Parker trailing in that order.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen took the early vote over challenger Corey Strong in the Congressional primary for the 9th District with 31,264 votes to 5,653 for Strong.