Voters in Park County and across the state voted overwhelmingly to keep their current judges.

Every judge up for a retention vote this year received strong support, according to unofficial results, including Park County District Court Judge Bill Simpson and Park County Circuit Court Judge Joey Darrah.

Across the four counties of the Big Horn Basin, 83.4% of the roughly 25,326 voters supported Simpson while 80.2% supported Darrah. The two judges, who are based in Cody, hear the vast majority of the civil and criminal cases that pass through Park County’s court system.

Darrah’s support was a few percentage points lower within Park County, where he received the backing of 78.4% of 14,370 voters. He can serve on the bench for another four years before facing the electorate again.

Simpson was officially retained for another six years, but he’ll reach 70 years of age and face mandatory retirement in 2027.

Local voters also expressed strong support for Wyoming Supreme Court justices Kate Fox and John Fenn. Though the support was slightly lower than the state average, 76.6% of Park County voters chose to retain Fox and 76.3% opted to retain Fenn.

A pair of local conservative groups, the Park County Patriots and Conservative Roundup, had lobbied against Fenn and Fox while supporting Simpson and Darrah.

In a Wyoming Bar Association survey released ahead of the election, attorneys who’d appeared before the justices and judges had expressed strong support for all four.