While Tuesday was a happy night for some of Osceola County's political candidates, the most happy ones simply breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday -- and then hit the ground running for the Nov. 6 general election.
Partisan primaries were held for two Board of Osceola County Commission seats and the Clerk of Courts position, along with races for U.S. House and Senate seats.

Paul Owen, who pulled in 60 percent of the vote in the county commission seat 1 Republican race over Jed Suhl (26) and Jerry Gemskie (13), will face sitting commissioner Mike Harford in the general election.
"It feels good to win, our people worked so hard," said Owen, who also sat on the County Commission from 2000-08. "I'm excited for the chance to get back on the board, there are things I still want to accomplish. We'll get started (Wednesday morning)."
In the Republican race for seat 3, Jeffery Goldmacher (50.3 perrcent) downed opponents Tony Ferentinos (32.6) and Ivan Rivera (17).
He will take on sitting district 3 commissioner Brandon Arrington (63.6 percent), who eased past Marta Moczo-Santiago (36.4), and learned about it over the phone -- his neighborhood south of Kissimmee lost power shortly before 8:30 p.m.
"I'm glad we didn't have a big get-together," Arrington joked Tuesday night from his dark living room. "I'm happy to have the support of my party. This took a great effort from our volunteers. Now we have to get out and work toward educating voters for the general election."
Goldmacher said he knows he now faces an uphill battle in the general election facing the sitting commissioner.
"It's a heavily Democratic district; the saving grace is all of the NPA (no party affiliation) voters, they can turn this race around."
In the county's Clerk of the Court race, Rayelynne Ketchum and Armando Ramirez will face off in November for the job. Ketchum (43 percent) claimed a four-way Republican race, while Ramirez (38) narrowly defeated incumbent Malcolm Thompson (33) and Alpha Lacey (28) to claim his first victory in his sixth political race.
"It happened because of the voters, they took time to go out to the polls, and I'm humbled," Ramirez said. "I've been working non-stop since I filed last year, and I'm happy but we will need everyone's help on Nov. 6 and I hope to continue my momentum."
County-wide, just over 23,000 of the county's 151,721 voters cast a ballot, a rather low 15.68 percent.