Three Republicans ran for the open state representative seat for District 16 to succeed retiring State Rep. Doug Gutwein. In the Pulaski County portion of the vote, Kendall Culp of Jasper County received 649 votes, followed by Barbara Neihouser of Francesville with 402 and Bryan Washburn of Jasper County with 344.

Circuit court clerk JoLynn Behny received 895 votes, to her challenger Patty Sullivan's 677 votes, while assessor Holly VanDerAA won 913 votes compared to her challenger Shianne Zellers' 755 votes.

For County Council Dist. 1, Brad Bonnell defeated Stephanie Wheeler 278-179. In the other contested county council race, Mike Tiede defeated Bill Boehning 290-178 in Dist. 4.

In the Winamac Town Council at-large race, Alvin Parish and Danyelle Weaver each collected 151 votes, to Jim Watkins' 149 votes for the two available council seats.

In the contested Monroe Township Trustee race, incumbent Michelle Schmicker won 333 votes to challenger Debra Winter's 213 votes. In the three-way race for Salem Township Trustee, Mike Gayer had 139 votes, Sara Strus had 94, and Jay Johnson had 25.

Republican voters selected Doug Gutwein, Dan Murphy, JoLynn Behny and Holly VanDerAa as delegates to the state convention.

The Pulaski County voting totals, by precinct, will be added to this article later on Wednesday.

Voter Turnout

 Pulaski County had a 21.71 percent voter turnout for the 2022 Indiana Primary Election Tuesday, as reported by the county election board (compared to 31.03 percent in the 2020 Primary).

A total of 1,975 voters cast ballots, out of a total 9,098 registered voters. (Those numbers were 2,375 voters out of a total 7,653 registered in 2020.) Of those who voted, 1,431 cast their ballots on election day, while 454 participated in early in-person voting, and 90 took advantage of mail-in voting.

The Pulaski County voting totals, by precinct, were as follows: (includes absentee votes)

*Incumbent