Marty Crevitt and John Carlisle will face off in an Aug. 25 runoff election for the Republican Party nomination for the District 4 supervisor seat being vacated by Board of Supervisors President Bill Lauderdale. Lauderdale decided not to seek re-election.

Crevitt and Carlisle finished within 28 votes of each other, with Crevitt getting 375 votes, or 39.81 percent, to 347 votes or 36.84 percent. Wayne Muirhead III was third with 221 votes or 23.04 percent. Crevitt won the Jett and Elks Lodge precincts to finish first.

The runoff winner will face Casey D. Fisher, who defeated Gary L. Cooper in the Democratic primary. Fisher won all four precincts in the Democratic primary, getting 288 votes, or 70.59 percent, to 117, or 28.69 percent for Cooper. Fisher finished second to Lauderdale in the 2011 election. There are no independent candidates in the race.

“I’m surprised. This is my first time on a ballot,” Crevitt said.

He said he plans to “keep working, talking to people and explain to them so they know what I hope to accomplish when I’m elected supervisor. There’s no time to waste now for sure.”

He said he plans to resume campaigning immediately.

“Actually tonight, I’m hoping to be at a victory party if it’s still there,” Crevitt said.

Carlisle said he plans to concentrate on the areas for the Jett and Elks precincts.

“That’s where I got beat the worst, “ he said. “I’m going to concentrate on them and do like I did last time, go door-to-door and get everybody out to vote. That’s going to be the problem, getting people to go to vote in the runoff.”

Muirhead congratulated Crevitt and Carlisle on making the runoff.

“I’ll still be in the election as far as casting my vote, and I’ll make a decision who I’ll back in the next few days,” he said.

He was undecided whether he would run again.

“That’s four years down the road; a lot can happen between now and then,” he said. “I enjoyed getting out and campaigning and seeing the people and introducing myself to people I didn’t know in the community. I have no regrets about running at all.”

Attempts to contact Fisher about the Democratic primary were unsuccessful.

“I did what I could, and the people voted,” Cooper said.

He was undecided if he would run again.