Voters across Alabama headed to the polls Tuesday in a special Senate election, with Democrat Doug Jones winning his party’s nomination outright and the Republican race heading into a runoff between former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and sitting Senator Luther Strange.

Baldwin County Probate Judge Tim Russell said Baldwin County’s voter turnout was around 18 percent, which he said was higher than most other places around the state, which was around 10 percent.

“I’m proud that we were so much better than the state average,” Russell said. “When you compare 18 to 10, that’s an 80 percent improvement over the state.”

25,929 total ballots were cast in Baldwin County, and 87 percent of those were in the Republican race.

In the GOP race, Baldwin County residents gave Strange the most votes, 7,215 to Moore’s 6,792 votes. Baldwin County’s own Trip Pittman came in third with 5,033 votes, and Congressman Mo Brooks came in fourth with 3,125 votes.

Baldwin County was one of only five counties statewide to give Strange a majority of the vote.

On the Democratic side, Jones received 55.9 percent of the vote (1,876 votes) while his nearest challenger, Mobile’s Robert Kennedy Jr. received 19 percent of the vote (643 votes).

Statewide, Jones had 66 percent of the vote (104,549 votes), with his closest challenger Robert Kennedy amassing 18 percent (28,672 votes).

Moore led the GOP pack with 39 percent of the vote (162,570 votes), with Strange at 33 percent (136,910 votes). Brooks had 20 percent (82,363 votes) and Pittman garnered 7 percent of the vote (28,846 votes) across the state.

Russell said the county implemented new voting technology to help check people in at polling stations that worked well countywide.

“It went very smoothly, and we were excited that hundreds of elections officials were glad to be working with the new technology,” Russell said. “We didn’t have a single complaint, and it will increase the efficiency of our polling places, especially for the upcoming elections next year.”

Russell thanked those who did turn out to vote and all of the poll workers for helping the election run smoothly.

“I genuinely hope everyone turns out for the runoff to help pick who our next senator might be,” Russell said.