In the only two races to be decided in the primary in Atchison County, Alva Stoner beat-out three other candidates to win the primary race for the Commissioner of the Southern district in the republican primary.

On the democratic side, Richard Burke took 151 votes to beat Jack Vernon for the Southern District.

The democrat Burke will face the Republican Stoner in the November election.

Sheriff Denis Martin ran unopposed in the democratic primary. The incumbent faces no opposition in November.