Politics & Government
Kent Picked Obama in Landslide
Take a look at the tallies for each precinct in Kent — did your section of town vote Republican or Democrat?
It's likely no surprise to many Kent residents that the Tree City voted overwhelmingly to re-elect President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election.
The incumbent Democrat received a heavy majority of total votes cast by Kent voters for the two major-party candidates, both himself and Republican Mitt Romney, according to complete but unofficial results from the Portage County Board of Elections.
A total 10,003 votes were cast by Kent voters for the Republican and Democratic candidates.
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Of those, Obama received 7,345, or about 73 percent. While Romney received 2,685, or about 27 percent, according to the board of elections.
Every single voting precinct in Kent — all 21 — voted in favor of Obama.
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The vote aligns with campaign contributions to both candidates by Kent voters, who overwhelmingly gave more money to support Obama's campaign than Romney's.
Take a look at the individual precinct vote totals for president below.
Stewart
Alexander
(S)
Duncan
(N) Virgil
Goode
(C) Gary
Johnson
(L) Barack
Obama
(D) Mitt
Romney
(R) Jill
Stein
(G) 1-A 0 1 0 2 511 273 7 1-B 1 0 0 3 454 121 0 1-C 0 2 1 7 315 150 2 1-D 0 0 0 4 373 181 2 2-A 2 2 1 3 496 289 0 2-B 0 1 1 10 379 136 5 2-C 0 0 0 7 373 146 4 2-D 0 0 0 12 365 127 0 3-A 0 1 2 8 412 159 5 3-B 0 0 0 4 361 95 1 3-C 0 1 0 5 219 87 1 3-D 2 3 1 3 245 90 2 4-A 1 0 0 14 539 175 5 4-B 0 0 0 7 305 85 3 5-A 0 0 0 2 208 60 2 5-B 1 1 0 8 291 77 6 5-C 1 0 0 10 399 106 0 6-A 1 1 0 5 264 63 7 6-B 0 0 1 4 390 124 2 6-C 0 0 0 1 161 32 3 6-D 0 0 0 5 285 82 0
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