India, Aug. 19 -- Wyoming voters went to the polls on Tuesday to choose a Republican nominee for governor from a field of four candidates competing to succeed term-limited incumbent Mark Gordon, in the state's first genuinely open race for its top office in more than a decade.

The Republican primary pitted state Senator Eric Barlow, a fourth-generation rancher and large-animal veterinarian who previously served as Speaker of the Wyoming House, against Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder, who carries the endorsement of US President Donald Trump; retired Marine Corps colonel Brent Bien, a combat aviator making his second bid for the governorship after losing to Gordon in 2022; and professional bull rider and rodeo produc...