Rep. Robert Goodlatte withstood a challenge from tea party-backed Karen Kwiatkowski on Tuesday to claim theRepublican nomination for his 11th term in Congress from the 6th District.

Goodlatte captured 66 percent of the districts vote, which includes Lynchburg, Amherst County and part of Bedford County. Just 7 percent of registered voters turned out.

Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force officer who lives in the Shenandoah Valley, attracted small but enthusiastic crowds to campaign rallies where she aligned herself with Ron Pauls brand of libertarianism.

Goodlatte relied on his incumbency, refusing to debate Kwiatkowski.

He will face Democrat Andy Schmookler, a Rockingham County author, in the November election.

The 6th District contest was slightly closer than two other Virginia primaries Tuesday in which incumbent Republican members of the House of Representativesfaced challengers.

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Virginia Beach, captured 90 percent of the vote againstR. M. Bonnie Girard in the 4th District.

Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Richmond and House majority leader, was renominated with 79 percent of the vote over Floyd Bayne in the 7th District.

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Goodlatte nets Republican nomination for 6th District