The Latest: 5 of 6 GOP lawmakers lock up primary battles


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on Utah election results (all times local):

3:25 p.m.

Five of six GOP state lawmakers facing primaries have locked up their party's nomination.

Senators Lincoln Fillmore and Curtis Bramble and House representatives Rebecca Edwards, Brian Greene and Marc Roberts all won their primary elections Tuesday.

One incumbent, Rep. Melvin Brown, was trailing in a tight race for Utah's 53 House District to Logan Wilde. The race was too close to call Wednesday.

Brown is a former Utah Speaker of the House who served from 1987 to 2000 and was re-elected to the statehouse in 2007.

In other races, GOP voters chose Dan Hemmert in Senate District 14, Cory Maloy in House District 6, Macade Jensen in House District 34 and Walt Brooks in House District 75.

Of those 10 primary races, half are essentially settled because no Democrat is running in November.

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11:35 a.m.

Voters have ousted the chairman of Utah's state school board and narrowed the field of candidates in six other races for the board of education.

David Crandall, who has served on the board since 2008, lost a primary race Tuesday for his seat to Kathleen Riebe and Gary Thompson.

The school board races are nonpartisan, so the top two winners of Utah's primary advance to the November general election.

Another incumbent board member, Leslie Brooks-Castle, also lost her race to Carol Barlow-Lear and Shelly Teuscher.

Two other current board members, Dave Thomas and Dixie Allen, advance to the general election with challengers.

In three other school board seats, no sitting board members were on the ballot Tuesday.

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