WARREN — Election day is nearly a week away and preprimary election campaign finance reports filed with the Trumbull County Board of Elections reveal spending details across hotly contested races.

The Friends of Michael J. Hovis, a group supporting Bazetta Township Trustee Michael Hovis in the Republican primary against incumbent Trumbull County Commissioner Denny Malloy, reported nothing carried over from the last report.

However, the committee received $52,700 in monetary contributions — nearly half of it from Hovis himself in separate checks dated Jan 1, Feb. 3 and Feb. 27, which counted as an outstanding loan owed by the committee.

Hovis reported $51,659 in expenditures, with advertising accounting for the bulk of that.

Reports show Hovis’s biggest transactions were to Cumulus Media for radio ads in three separate transactions — $7,619, $5,414 and $7,349 — followed by a transaction to WFMJ for $9,052 for TV ads.

Hovis spent $2,636 on signs in a transaction with AGE Graphics.

Malloy, on the other hand, had a carryover of $41,236 from his last report, receiving $1,642 in total monetary contributions. Of the carryover, $31,500 counted as outstanding loans owed by his committee, Friends of Denny Malloy.

Malloy’s report shows the biggest expenditure of the $6,042 utilized by his campaign was consulting, in a transaction with Capitol Promotions for $2,896. The next biggest expenditure was $947 to Fox Run Publishing in Cortland for news advertising.

AUDITOR RACE

In the three-way Republican primary race for auditor, incumbent Martha Yoder reported $3,922 brought over from her last report, but $21,287 in total funds available.

Yoder reported $19,963 in expenditures, with the largest being two transactions with Siliman’s Printery Inc. in Canton for $9,890 and $9,968.

Stacy A. Marling, Mahoning County’s chief deputy auditor and Bazetta’s fiscal officer, reported $6,680 brought over from her last report, but $13,845 in total funds available.

Like Hovis, Marling’s biggest transactions, making up her $11,417 in expenditures, were to Cumulus Media for radio ads, with two $4,358 transactions in March and April.

Former State Rep. Mike Loychik reported $3 brought over from his last report, with $9,617 available.

Making up his contributions were $3,530 in campaign signs from Congressman Michael Rulli-Rulli for Ohio and $6,000 from Rampart Strategies in Bazetta for voter polling and research.

Campaign materials made up the bulk of Loychik’s $5,788 in expenditures, in a transaction with Maryland-based Rightpath LLC for $4,478.