The local primary election went unfinished Tuesday night after the El Paso County Clerk’s main office was evacuated by the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Though the clerk’s office had already announced late in the afternoon that full results wouldn’t be available until Wednesday, the situation was accelerated when CSPD showed up shortly after 7 p.m. and gave employees 10 minutes to get out.

All of the six local contended Republican primaries, however, were already decided, even though several thousand ballots had gone uncounted. Roughly 90 percent of the votes have been counted, said County Clerk Wayne Williams, and all of the leaders were up by double digits.

The biggest race was for the GOP nomination for the 5th Congressional District, but that proved to be no contest. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn strolled by businessman Robert Blaha, with 61 percent of the vote to Blaha’s 39 percent.

Five other Colorado counties are part of the 5th Congressional District, but El Paso is by far the largest.

Most of the other races had similar splits. In Senate District 10, non-profit executive Owen Hill also took 61 percent of the vote over state Rep. Larry Liston, who got 39 percent.

In House District 19, possibly the most high-profile legislative race in the state, House Majority Leader Amy Stephens won easily over Rep. Marsha Looper with 60 percent to Looper’s 40 percent.

In House District 21, former Fountain City Councilwoman Lois Landgraf beat contractor Albert Sweet with 61 percent to Sweet’s 39 percent.

The two El Paso county commission primaries were also both contentious, but the two incumbents in both races crushed their grassroots opponents. Commissioner Sallie Clark, in District 3, beat Karen Magistrelli, with 59 percent to Magistrelli’s 41 percent.

And Commissioner Dennis Hisey beat Auddie Lee Cox in District 4 with 56 percent to Cox’s 44 percent.

By the time his office was evacuated, Williams said, they had finished compiling results from 57,000 ballots. He estimated they had 6,000 left to count. At the very most, he said, it was less than 10,000. That wasn’t enough to change the results, he said.

Lamborn said the voters “spoke decisively.”

“I’m very appreciative of the people of Colorado, that they support someone who has a proven conservative record,” he said.

The congressman essentially won his fourth term Tuesday night, since CD 5 is overwhelmingly Republican.

Lamborn faced his most serious challenger since 2008. Blaha, a millionaire businessman, put $722,000 of his own money into his campaign, in an unlikely effort to upset the sitting congressman.

Lamborn was first elected in 2006, and so was an established political veteran. Blaha was an untested political rookie. His campaign was largely based on the theme that there shouldn’t be a “permanent political class,” and he focused his outrage on Lamborn.

Blaha failed to gain traction, however, and blamed his loss on the exact thing he was trying to uproot — incumbency.

“That’s exactly what the platform was about — the power of an incumbent,” Blaha said.

He agreed with Lamborn and said that “the people have spoken,” but hinted that he would be back.

“This is not stopping here. This is America, the land of opportunities, and we’re going to go find another one,” Blaha said.

Majority Leader Stephens, a Monument Republican, won another term in the House.

Though many political observers were unsure of how the race would turn out, she proved to be more than Rep. Looper could handle.

“It was a huge win tonight,” Stephens said, and added she was full of “absolute joy.”

“What this confirms is that the people liked the message we had,” she said.

Looper didn’t return a phone call Tuesday night, but Stephens attributed her win to her dedicated campaign team, her conservative background, and the way Looper tried to tear her down with negative ads.

The other two winners in the legislative races also couldn’t be reached — Owen Hill in SD 10 and Lois Landgraf in HD 21. The two were dissimilar, however, in that Hill upset a sitting legislator and Landgraf beat down a nearly unfunded tea partier.

Hill, who almost knocked off Senate Majority Leader John Morse in 2010, returned to the Colorado Springs political scene with a vengeance, and won top line on the primary ballot over Liston at the El Paso County Assembly.

Landgraf, who was almost a reluctant candidate, entered the race late, after Sweet had started making waves and saying legislators are puppets for lobbyists.

The two El Paso County commission races ran very parallel. The two incumbents in districts 3 and 4, Sallie Clark and Dennis Hisey, respectively, at times appeared nervous about their campaigns and whether past votes would come back to haunt them. But their fears proved unfounded.

Clark and Hisey were both hounded for their support for a confusing ballot measure last year that seemed to shorten term limits for county commissioners, while in fact extending them. They also fended off attacks from their opponents over county spending and the financial troubles faced by the county.

Hisey couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday night, but Clark said she was “grateful I can continue to work for and with my constituents.”

She added, though, that the race hadn’t been much in her mind since Saturday, when news broke about the Waldo Canyon fire.