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By ALLEN H. JOHNSON
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said that he would laugh all the way
he were not re-elected.
He now has that opportunity.
Challenger W. Warren Sparrow w<
cumbent's punches in the white coi
KO'd Tisdale in the inner city's
black precincts to win the Democra
Tuesday night.
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a Hyatt ballroom after the final tall)
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By JOHN HINTON
Chronicle Staff Writer
W. Warren Sparrow was hesi
lani luesaay mgnt to declare
himself the winner over incumbent
Donald K. Tisdale.
"1 didn't want to make a victory
speech until I was sure that I
won," Sparrow said at his
celebration party in the Hyatt. "I
wanted to win so badly."
Sparrow defeated Tisdale
11,580-10,700 in the Democratic
Election
Year '86
primary for district attorney. His
margin of victory in an agonizingly
close race came from the
black vote.
An emotionally spent Tisdale,
who congratulated Sparrow after
the election, said he ran an effective
campaign. "We dug
ourselves out of a hole," he said.
I went out the way I wanted to
go out with my head held up.*'
Sparrow will face Republican
Joseph J. Oatto in the November
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election. Gatto, a former District
Court judge, received 6,676
votes, defeating H. Dwight
Nelson (1,833) and F. Mickey
Andrews (1,452).
Sparrow attributed his victory
to his grassroots campaign and
public discontent with Tisdale
over the handling of the Darryl
E. Hunt murder trial. Hunt was
convicted in June 1985 for the
rape and murder of Deborah B.
Sykes, a newspaper copy editor.
"We have defeated a tough
candidate and a tough organization,"
Sparrow said. "There was
a lot of dissatisfaction by many
county residents on how Tisdale
has been conducting himself."
Sparrow said he is going to
make changes in the district attorney's
office, including the hiring
of black assistant district at*
torneys. ''They (blacks) are entitled
to a wider participation in
that office than what they have
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Willard won the two available
nominations, while incumbent
Mazie S. Woodruff finished
third. "There is no need to be
upset," said a subdued Mrs. ,
Woodruff, who had hoped to at
least win enough votes to ask for
a runoff, but fell short. She was
the only black candidate in the
contest and the only black county
commissioner.
Mrs. Woodruff had said earlier
in the evening that the turnout
was disappointing. "I wish it had
been larger," she said. "If the
people don't vote, they have no
reason to gripe. They need to use
that valuable tool. It's more
precious than money."
Holleman came in first in the
Democratic primary with 12,397
votes and Willard was second
with 12,321 votes. Mrs.
Woodruff received 10,968 votes.
Mrs. Woodruff said her campaign
could have been weakened I
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at several black precincts in East
Winston.
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By LA.A. WILLIAMS
Chronica Staff Writer
Black voters denied District
Attorney Donald K. Tisdale his
chance for a fourth four-year
term in Tuesday's Democratic
primary. The controversial
Ti?dale lost to challenger W.
Warren Sparrow largely on the
strength of the city's black
precincts, 11,580-10,700, in unofficial
totals.
The final tally represented the
largest margin separating the two
throughout the night. Before
that, the two took turns grabbing .
the lead and relinquishing it,
before Sparrow pulled away in
the final hour of returns.
By contrast, Joseph J. Oatto,
who resigned his District Court
judgeship in February to pursue
the Republican nomination for
uisuivi ttiiurncy, pui away nis
two opponents, attorneys H.
Dwight Nelson and F. Mickey
Andrews, early. Gatto polled
6,676 votes, to a combined 3,285
But Forsyth County Sheriff
Preston Oldham and Senate candidate
Terry Sanford polled the
highest number of votes and
registered the largest margins of
victory in county races.
Oldham beat his chief of detectives,
Ron N. Barker,
14,817-6,177 in the Democratic
race for sheriff. Oldham faces no
Republican opposition in
November.
Sanford, the former North
Carolina governor and Duke
university president, ended hopes i
of a runoff in the Democratic
Senate race by taking an early i
lead against nine other candidates i
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Sanford, who also won the <
statewide nomination, finished
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to make the cut
with a total of 14,715 votes in thecounty,
to just 2,514 for his
nearest competitor, former Insurance
Commissioner John Ingram.
Democratic candidate Ted
Kinney, the lone black candidate
in the field, finished a surprising
third in Forsyth County, with
1,896 votes. William H. "Bill"
Belk, who was considered to have
more local black support than
Kinney, totalled only 1,212 votes.
In the county commissioners'
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Donald K. Tisdale
races, Democrats John S.
Holleman Jr. and Wayne G.
Willard held off incumbent
Mazie S. Woodruff to claim the
two party slots for November's
election.
Holleman's total of 12,397
votes was only 76 votes better
than Willard's. Mrs. Woodruff
fell behind early and never quite
made up the difference in one of \
the night's most closely watched ^
races. She totalled 10,968 votes.
On the Republican side of the
x>mmissioners race, incumbent
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