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Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | June 20, 2018
Primary voter turnout less than 8 percent in Fauquier By Jonathan Hunley Times Staff Writer
Last week’s primary elections were sparsely attended events in Fauquier and Prince William counties. Turnout for the Republican primary for U.S. Senate was only 7.78 percent in Fauquier County, Registrar Alex Ables said Friday. And even with Prince William Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart on the ballot, only about 10.5 percent of Prince William County voters turned out to the polls, said Matthew Wilson, spokesman
for the Prince William County Office of Elections. That was a little lower than the office expected, Wilson said, considering Stewart, R-At Large, was vying for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate. “Usually when there’s a recognizable name, it gets people to the polls,” he said. However, it seemed some people didn’t even know there was an election June 12, Wilson said. Stewart won the statewide primary with 44.9 percent of the vote compared to 43.1 percent for Del. Nick Freitas, of Culpeper, and 12 percent
for E.W. Jackson, a minister from Chesapeake. Stewart also carried Prince William with 56.4 percent of the vote, but Freitas took Fauquier with 47.9 percent. On the Democratic side, the marquee race in Prince William and Fauquier was the three-way contest in the 1st District, which stretches from Nokesville to Hampton Roads. Vangie Williams, a federal contractor from King George County, won the nod there. She carried Fauquier with 36 percent of the vote. Second-place finisher Edwin Santana, a former U.S. Marine from Staf-
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ford, won in Prince William with 44.5 percent. In Fauquier County, turnout for the Democratic primary in the 1st Congressional District was at 2.98 percent, Ables said. However, only voters in the Catlett, Lois, Morrisville and Bealeton precincts were eligible to cast ballots in that contest. While low, the numbers didn’t surprise Ables. Turnout in June primaries is usually less than 10 percent, he said. “These are usually low-turnout affairs,” he said. And last week’s figures weren’t record lows, either. The lowest turnout Ables said he’s seen in recent years was 1.07 percent. That was in June 2005 in a Democratic primary for lieutenant governor. Only 416 of 38,881 voters showed up for that election. Part of Prince William, as well as the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park, is in the 10th Congressional District, and the race in November there will be between incumbent GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock and state Sen. Jennifer Wexton, D-33rd. They each won primaries last week, as well. Reach Jonathan Hunley at jhunley@fauquier.com
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