About 50 percent of voters turn out in Vermillion

Staff report
The Tribune-Star

NEWPORT May 07, 2008 12:26 am

— Vermillion County voters went to the polls in large numbers Tuesday despite few local contested races.
Around 50 percent of Vermillion County voters cast ballots, according to the Vermillion County Clerk’s office.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton won 66 percent of Vermillion County’s Democratic vote over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s 34 percent in the presidential primary.
Meanwhile, the sitting county clerk was re-elected and a pair of incumbents retained their seats on the County Council.

Republican-contested
President
Mike Huckabee 95
John McCain 393
Ron Paul 37
Mitt Romney 24

Republican Uncontested
Governor
Mitch Daniels 409

U.S. Representative
Greg Goode 451

Democrat-contested
President
Hillary Clinton 3,261
Barack Obama 1,684

County Circuit Clerk
Florinda Pruitt 1,975
Dott Farr Lindsey 1,545
Roxanna Sager 1,290

County Commissioner, 3rd District
Timothy Wilson 2,577
Jim McFall Jr. 1,947

County Council at-large (Vote for three)
Michael Costello 2,227
Lovonna Mattick 1,445
Randy Padish 1,378
Michael Carty 1,250
Billy Bybee 1,220
John Hawkins 1,213
Larry Langley 1,021
Mike Reed 981
Albert Clark 978
Margaret Roderick 724
Tom Collins 599

North Vermillion School Board
Eugene Township
Roger P. Lewis 725
Rick O. Neal Weir 638

Vermillion Township
Larry Bemis 937
Derrick M. Dougherty 426