(MSC News)--Missouri voters cast their ballots in primary election races Tuesday. 

In Buchanan County, Bill Puett will face Democrat Ron Fisher in November's General Election County Sheriff's Race.

Puett defeated challenger Ed Sexton with 70% of the vote.

Longtime Sheriff Mike Strong chose not to seek re-election.

In Holt County, incumbent County Sheriff Scott Wedlock was defeated by challenger David McClain 718 to 632.

In the District 1 Associate Commission Race, Carla Markt was the victor, defeating Mike Freeman 451 to 204, while Susan Lentz easily defeated Iva Tubbs in the race for County Coroner, 1.068 to 273.

Voters in Buchanan County, Missouri have overwhelmingly approved a sales tax for the construction and repairs of area Missouri River levees.

Voters Tuesday approved the implementation of a countywide 1/4 cent sales tax for a period of 4 years by a vote of 10,860 to 3,222.

The project is estimated to cost more than $70-million, with the federal government providing 65 percent of those funds.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens won the Republican primary for Missouri governor Tuesday after a hard-fought race in which he cast himself as a conservative outsider willing to use his military bravado to blow up perceived corruption in government.

Greitens prevailed over another self-described outsider, businessman John Brunner, and a pair of more experienced Republican leaders — longtime Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and former Missouri House Speaker and U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway.

He declared to cheering supporters at his victory party: "Together, we are leading a conservative revolution to take our state back."

Greitens will face Attorney General Chris Koster, who easily won the Democratic gubernatorial primary, in the Nov. 8 general election. Koster, a former Republican state senator and prosecuting attorney, touted himself as a "conservative Democrat" in his victory speech and pledged a campaign showing that "fiscal conservativism and social tolerance can live together in our state."

The Missouri governor's office will be open because two-term incumbent Jay Nixon, a Democrat, has served the maximum amount allowed under state law and cannot seek re-election.