Lee County – Lee County has elected a new sheriff during the November 3rd midterm election in Alabama. Former deputy Cam Hunt, who was famously fired by Sheriff Jay Jones for launching a campaign against the incumbent, won Tuesday night’s election with 27,667 votes and about 66% of the total vote.
“To everyone who voted, volunteered, knocked on doors, put up signs, made phone calls, donated, prayed for us, or simply offered a few words of encouragement, thank you. I couldn’t have done this without y’all,” Hunt shared on Facebook.
Sheriff Jay Jones received 14,275 votes as a write-in candidate on the ballot. Supporters of the current sheriff launched a grassroots campaign to write-in Jones after he lost the Republican primary to Hunt by 307 votes in May.
