Democrats Denise Ennett and Darrell Stephens will square off in a runoff election in four weeks on Sept. 3 in a race to replace Rep. Charles Blake, D-Little Rock, who resigned to serve as Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott’s chief of staff.

Ennett garnered 33% of the vote to Stephens’ 31% in the special election that saw turnout of just 8.5%.

Five Democrats and no Republicans filed to succeed Blake.

Besides Ennett, a homemaker, and Stephens, a local businessman, the two runoff contestants defeated Phillip Hood, a law clerk at the State Workers’ Compensation Commission; Roderick Talley, a local barber and businessman; and Russell R. Williams, III, a local college student.

The unofficial results were:

Russell Williams… 5.46%

Philip Hood … 19.54%

Denise Ennett … 32.89%

Darrell Stephens … 30.83%

Roderick Greer Talley … 11.28%

Total votes cast … 1,359