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Politics & Government

Welch Falls Short; Primary Results in Chester County, State

Results of nominations for presidential candidates, statewide office-holders and legislators.

Tom Sunnergren, Neighbor
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Patch will be reporting 2012 primary-election results as they come in for Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, state legislators and many other races. Polls closed at 8 p.m.

Results are listed below. Unofficial winners are shown in bold type.

As of 10:45 p.m., 87 percent of votes had been counted statewide and 79 percent in Chester County.

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President

Democrats County votes State votes Barack Obama 11,138 512,824 Republicans County votes State votes Newt Gingrich 2,142 69,943 Mitt Romney 18,908 390,723 Ron Paul 4,022 90,838 Rick Santorum 3,494 130,476

U.S. Senator

Democrats County votes State votes Bob Casey 10,259 494,947 Joseph John Vodvarka 1,138

121,348

Republicans County votes State votes David Alan Christian 699 63,675 Marc A. Scaringi 403 46,597 Steven D. Welch 14,433 130,139 Tom Smith 5,872 259,63 Sam Rohrer 6,726 144,321

U.S. Representative, 6th District

Democrat County votes Total votes Manan Trivedi 7,113 14,769 Republican County votes Total votes Jim Gerlach 18,233 32,931

State attorney general

Democrats County votes State votes Kathleen G. Kane 4,643 338,433 Patrick Murphy 7,231 287,256 Republicans County votes State votes David J. Freed 24,779 560,055

State auditor general

Democrats County votes State votes Eugene A. DePasquale 10,480 503,419 Republicans County votes State votes Frank A. Pinto 7,629 199,562 John Maher 17,272 392,914

State treasurer

Democrat County votes State votes Rob McCord 10,548 506,768 Republican County votes State votes Diana Irey Vaughan 24,266 556,301

State senator, District 19

Democrat Votes Andrew Dinniman 6,877 Republican Votes Christopher Amentas 13,755

State representative, District 157

Democrat Votes Paul J. Drucker 1,137 Republican Votes Warren E. Kampf 2,117

 

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