LAKE COUNTY — The results of the presidential primary election in Lake County are so far in sync with votes cast statewide and nationwide, according to election results posted by the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office at 11:24 p.m. Tuesday.
Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the Democratic campaign and John McCain heads the Republican campaign in national polling averages with 99 percent of the precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press.
In Lake County, Clinton captured 54.8 percent of the Democratic vote. Barack Obama got 35.3 percent of Lake County”s Democratic vote. Clinton won the California primary with 52 percent of the party”s votes. Nationwide, Obama has won 13 state primary elections. California was one of 22 states to hold presidential primary elections Tuesday.
McCain got 46.5 percent of Lake County”s Republican vote, followed by Mitt Romney with 23.7 percent. McCain won the California primary with 42 percent of his party”s vote, again followed by Romney with 34 percent of the Republican vote. McCain leads the Republican campaign trail nationwide with nine state primaries, followed by Romney with seven and Mike Huckabee with five.
Lake County”s vote narrowly ran contrary to the statewide vote on the four Indian gaming referendums, propositions 94, 95, 96 and 97. The vote count in Lake County Tuesday night showed just less than a tenth of a percent higher than 50 percent of the county”s voters were opposed to the four measures. California”s voters passed all four propositions with 56 percent in favor of each.
Proposition 91 failed with 59.2 percent against it in Lake County and 58 percent against in statewide. The measure proposed to prohibit the certain transportation funds from being held in the state”s general fund.
Proposition 92 met opposition with 59.1 percent of Lake County”s voters against it and 57 percent of California”s voters against it. The measure would have put a cap on community college tuition fees and separated them from the K ? 12 education system.
Proposition 93, which proposed to limit legislators” term limits to 12 years in either house, also failed with 56.5 percent of Lake County voting against it and 54 percent of the state”s voters opposed.
In other election news, write-in candidates in the American Independent party took 29.2 percent of the party”s vote in Lake County, a full four percentage points higher than frontrunner Don J. Grundmann. Ralph Nader leads both the Green party with 60 percent of the vote and the Peace and Freedom party with 52.9 percent and Christine Smith leads the Libertarian party with 20 percent of the vote.
Lake County Registrar of Voters Diane Fridley has until March 4 to certify the election. Fridley said she is concurrently working on the upcoming June 3, 2008 primary election, which will have three county supervisor positions and congressional candidates on the ballot.
Contact Tiffany Revelle at trevelle@record-bee.com.
