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Republicans sweep area legislative races

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WORLAND — Republicans swept the four state legislative races in the southern part of the Big Horn Basin Tuesday night.

Wyatt Agar, R-Thermopolis, easily won election to Senate District 20 with 86 percent of the vote. He received 6,893 votes. Mary Jane Norskog, D-Thermopolis, received 1,546.

In their home county of Hot Springs, Agar earned 1,817 votes to 714 for Norskog. In Washakie County, Agar re...