Republican candidates found Carroll County very much to their liking, as the GOP earned four victories and one tie in the five races contested in the county.

In the race for governor, Republican Bob McDonnell defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds 5,229-1,932 in Carroll County, dominating in all five county districts and winning each by no fewer than 535 votes.

With 99 percent of precincts reporting statewide, McDonnell earned nearly 59 percent of the vote, scoring a 1,158,871-814,582 victory.

Republican Bill Bolling defeated Jody Wagner 5,038 to 2,029 for Lieutenant Governor. Much like McDonnell, Bolling won with relative ease in each district in the county.

Bolling earned 1,102,159 votes statewide to Wagner’s 849,958 to provisionally earn the spot.

Ken Cuccinelli picked up a convincing 5,035-1,986 victory against Steve Shannon in the Attorney General, winning with many of the same margins as his GOP ticket-mates.

Statewide, Cuccinelli picked up nearly 58 percent of the vote, with 1,118,287 ballots to Shannon’s 823,734 votes.

In the House of Delegates’ Fifth District election, incumbent Bill Carrico ran unopposed and picked up 1,657 votes in Carroll. Districtwide, Carrico picked up 13,724 votes.

In the hotly-contested 10th District race, Republican challenger Ed Creed tied Democratic incumbent Ward Armstrong, as each candidate picked up 2,513 votes.

Creed earned victories in the absentee ballot count and in the Fancy Gap, Pine Creek and Pipers Gap districts. Armstrong took Laurel Fork.

Armstrong went on to defeat Creed in the unofficial districtwide count, picking up 9,085 votes to the challenger’s 6,989 ballots.