Dr. David J. Moylan used big support from his home county of Schuylkill on Tuesday to win the Republican nomination in the 17th congressional district in a three-man race.

Schuylkill County Democratic voters went big for Tom Wolf in his bid to face incumbent Republican Tom Corbett in the fall for governor.The lack of local races resulted in a very low turnout of voters overall in the county with just over 25 percent of the eligible 84,000-plus voters turning out at the polls.Congressional raceMoylan defeated the other two candidates, Matt Connolly and Matthew Deitz, both of Northampton County. Connolly and Deitz split the vote in their home county, which also helped Moylan win the nomination.Moylan's total vote for the entire district was 9,209, with Connolly getting 6,949 and Dietz 4,430.In Schuylkill, Moylan, the county coroner, got 6,236 votes compared to 1,163 for Connolly and 818 for Dietz.The vote totals:In Northampton County: Moylan 347, Connolly 1,664 and Dietz 1,283.Luzerne County: Moylan 377, Connolly 637 and Dietz 430.Lackawanna County: Moylan 1,243, Connolly 1,494 and Dietz 775.Monroe County: Moylan 463, Connolly 1,407 and Dietz 832.Carbon County: Moylan 544, Connolly 584 and Dietz 292.Incumbent Democrat Matt Cartwright, of Lackawanna County, was unopposed for his party's nomination. He got 47,919 votes. The breakdown follows:Lackawanna County 22,516, Schuylkill 6,934; Luzerne 7,859; Northampton 4,783, Monroe 3,211, and Carbon 2,616.StatewideSchuylkill County Democrats strongly supported statewide winner Wolf for the nomination for governor to face off against Corbett in the fall.In a hotly contested race statewide, Schuylkill Demos gave Wolf 5,667 votes. The rest of the field finished a distance back with Robert McCord getting 1,876, Katie McGinty 763, and Allyson Y. Schwartz, 541.In the race for lieutenant governor on the Demo side Mike Stack emerged as the county and statewide winner to run with Wolf in the fall.Stack got 2,946 votes in the county followed by Brad Koplinski with 2,188, Mark Smith 2,172, Mark Critz 422, and Brandon P. Neuman 415.On the GOP side Corbett was unopposed and got 5,386 token votes. His lieutenant governor, Jim Cawley, was also unopposed and got 6,389 votes.The county's three state house representatives were all unopposed yesterday and their opposing parties had no candidates.In the 124th district incumbent Republican Jerry Knowles of Tamaqua garnered 2,402 votes in Schuylkill. In the section of Berks County that votes in the district he got 411 and in Carbon County 98.Republican Mike Tobash, of the 125th district, got 2,745 votes in Schuylkill.Democrat Neil P. Goodman, of Mahanoy City, in the 123rd district, got 4,273 votes yesterday. His district is solely in Schuylkill County.In the race for membership in the state Republican committee, four-year term, there were three to be elected, one male, one female, and one either gender.The male winner was Scott R. Thomas with 4,176. Two females won the other two positions. Mary Beth Dougherty led the race with 4,554 votes followed by Carolyn L. Bonkoski with 3,225.The remaining three men got the following votes: Kyle Heffner, 3,123, Ron Boltz 2,691, and George Moyer 2,549.On the Democratic side two seats on the state committee were up and only two candidates were on the ballot. Liz Bettinger got 6,957 votes and Laine S. Gehres 4,786.