Courtesy of Kohl-Welles, Carlyle, Dickerson
The 36th District incumbents – Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Rep. Reuven Carlyle and Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson – emerged victorious in the Aug. 17 primary.

Strong primary for 36th District incumbents

By Michael Harthorne
08/18/2010

The Aug. 17 primary election was a good one for the three incumbents – Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson and Rep. Reuven Carlyle – from the 36th District.

In the first counts released shortly after 8 p.m. Aug. 17, Kohl-Welles, a 16-year state senator, had 82.33 percent of the vote to challenger Leslie Klein's 17.14 percent.

Seven-term State Rep. Dickerson was showing 79.24 percent of the vote to challenger Jill England's 20.43 percent.

In his bid for a second term as 36th District representative, Carlyle, running unopposed, pulled in 97.25 percent of the vote.

Due to the state's top-two primary system, all candidates will move on to the November general election.

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