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Election Day 2012
Election day Tuesday, April 3, produced no major surprises and low voter turnout in the District of Columbia. The winners: (top left) D.C. Council members Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4), Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7) and (bottom left) Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) retained their seats. Only D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At-Large) is holding off slicing his victory cake. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Orange is leading in a race that sources say may remain unsettled for at least 10 days as absentee and provisional ballots are counted. / Photos by Shevry Lassiter, Victor Holt, Roy Lewis and Khalid Naji-Allah
City’s Political Status Quo Remains Unchanged By Barrington M. Salmon and James Wright WI Staff Writers District residents went to the polls Tuesday, April 3, in an election that featured low voter turnout and no major surprises. D.C. Council member Vincent Orange (D-At-Large) survived a
scare from former D.C. Council member Sekou Biddle to get the Democratic Party nomination for one of the two at-large seats in November. Unofficial results had Orange at 39 percent with Biddle at 38 percent and Peter Shapiro and E. Gail Anderson Holness, at 10 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
Orange, 54, defeated Biddle last April for the at-large seat to replace Kwame Brown, who was elected D.C. Council Chairman in November 2010. D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) was renominated easily to represent her ward at the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest. She de-
feated five opponents, Renee Bowser (no relation), Judi Jones, Max Skolnik, Baruti Jahi and Calvin Gurley, getting 65 percent of the vote. Bowser has no formal Republican opposition at this point Bowser, 39, is viewed by some political observers as a possible 2014 mayoral candidate.
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D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) won re-nomination because he had no opponents. The status quo for Ward 7 and Ward 8 remained unchanged as both incumbents – Council members Yvette Alexander and
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