Vicksburg native and incumbent Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann walked away with the Republican nomination for re-election while state Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Brookhaven defeated two opponents in the GOP primary for agriculture commissioner in Tuesday’s voting.

Lynn Fitch led in the GOP primary for state treasurer but was forced into an Aug. 23 runoff with state Sen. Lee Yancey of Brandon. The third candidate in the race was attorney Lucien Smith of Jackson.

Hosemann, in his first term, won easily, defeating Gulfport City Council member Ricky Dombrowski.

Locally, Warren County voters went for Hosemann 4,756 to 286 for Dombrowski.

Just as he did four years ago, Hosemann, a 1965 graduate of St. Aloysius High School, used lighthearted television commercials in which an older woman called him Philbert, Gilbert and Engelbert — almost anything but Delbert, until their final scene together.

No Democrat is running for secretary of state. One faction of the Reform Party wants to put a candidate for secretary of state on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.

“It’s very humbling that we got this kind of response,” said Hosemann, 64, in a phone interview from his election-night party at a downtown Jackson restaurant. “We took a lot of positions on voter ID, on redistricting … It also is encouragement to go forward. The people of Mississippi said stay the course with less government red tape, on handling public lands in a safe manner, on making our elections safe for everyone.”

Dombrowski, 51, centered his campaign on a contention that Hosemann was wrong in asserting the state owns coastal harbors.

The councilman claims cities own the harbors.

Hosemann said the state doesn’t charge for the leases. They’re simply a matter of protocol and give the secretary of state oversight to protect against violations of the law, such as privatizing public lands.

Several cities already have signed harbor leases with Hosemann’s office, but Gulfport balked. The case is going to court.

“I want to use this election to offer the city of Gulfport and the mayor the opportunity to sit down again without having to pay some lawyers and work this out,” Hosemann said Tuesday night.

Hyde-Smith of Brookhaven, who is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, defeated retired agriculture educator Max Phillips of Taylorsville and state Rep. Dannie Reed of Ackerman.

Warren County Republican voters also supported Hyde-Smith, who took 2,539 votes to 1,704 for Phillips and 608 for Reed.

Hyde-Smith, 52, was elected to the Senate in 1999, 2003 and 2007 as a Democrat, but is considered a fiscal conservative and switched to the Republican Party in December 2010, saying she was concerned about the future of Mississippi and the United States.

She will face Democratic nominee Joel Gill, 59, a cattleman from Pickens, in the Nov. 8 general election. Gill ran unopposed in the primary.

Phillips, 64, is a farmer, a former agriculture teacher in public schools and former agricultural banker. He said he’s been a Republican for 25-plus years, and this is his third race for agriculture commissioner.

Reed, 59, was first elected to the state House in 2003 in a district covering parts of Choctaw, Grenada, Oktibbeha and Webster counties.

He is a former Choctaw County extension agent and is a member of the House Agriculture Committee. In the House, he pushed for years to increase safety and training requirements for young people on all-terrain vehicles.

Treasurer candidate Fitch won the Warren County GOP vote 2,560 to 1,465 for Smith. Yancey was a distant third with 893.

Ocean Springs Mayor Connie Moran was unopposed for the Democratic nomination for treasurer.

Fitch, 49, of Madison, has been executive director of the state Personnel Board the past two years, and is on leave during the campaign.

She spent five years as deputy director of the state Department of Employment Security after starting her legal career on the staff of then-Attorney General Ed Pittman.

As an assistant attorney general, Fitch represented several state entities, including the treasurer’s office and the Bond Commission. She was a staff attorney for the state House of Representatives and has worked as a bond attorney in private practice.

Yancey, 43, was a consultant for several years for the Christian Action Commission of the Mississippi Baptist Convention. An investment adviser for Woodridge Capital Portfolio Management, Yancey was elected to the state Senate in 2007 in a district that includes parts of Madison and Rankin counties.

Smith, 30, clerked for a year in Jackson for Judge Rhesa Barksdale of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, starting in 2008. He worked as a staff attorney and budget adviser for Republican Gov. Haley Barbour from 2009 until December. Among other duties, he helped handle Barbour’s legal challenge of the 2010 federal health care expansion.

Rival factions of the Reform Party want to run a candidate for treasurer. One faction wants to run a candidate for agriculture commissioner.

In other state races, incumbent Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney, a Vicksburg resident, was unopposed for the Republican nomination.

He will face Democrat Louis Fondren, who also was unopposed in primary voting, in the November election.

Also unopposed in the party primaries were incumbent attorney general and Democratic candidate Jim Hood and Republican nominee Steve Simpson.