Election night

48th Congressional District Primary Election

FINAL UPDATE (11:00PM): Absentee and 268 of 268 of precincts reporting.


JOHN CAMPBELL (REP) 36640 46.0%
MARILYN C. BREWER (REP) 13272 16.7%
JIM GILCHRIST (AI) 11490 14.4%
STEVE YOUNG (DEM) 7110 8.9%
JOHN GRAHAM (DEM) 3242 4.1%
BEA FOSTER (DEM) 2606 3.3%
DON UDALL (REP) 1284 1.6%
JOHN KELLY (REP) 955 1.2%
BÉA TIRITILLI (GRN) 698 0.9%
BRUCE COHEN (LIB) 667 0.8%
DAVID R. CROUCH (REP) 455 0.6%
SCOTT MACCABE (REP) 353 0.4%
MARSHA A. MORRIS (REP) 322 0.4%
TOM PALLOW (DEM) 270 0.3%
GUY E. MAILLY (REP) 138 0.2%
MARSHALL SAMUEL SANDERS (REP) 94 0.1%
EDWARD A. SUPPE (REP) 87 0.1%

There will be a runoff, and Tiritilli starts off in 4th place, besting the Libertarian by 31 votes. I didn't see any polls, but Gilchrist did disapointingly well. He came on strong on election day, getting a much higher vote at the precincts than from absentee voters, and handily beating the most popular Democrat.

Hopefully Tiritilli will benefit from the absence of a second Bea in the race. Given that Campbell is clearly going to win the reelection, Tiritilli could also benefit from an anti-War protest vote, but I fear noone will show up.