ST. GEORGE – Utah’s Primary Election 2012 results for Federal, State, and district seats for Iron and Washington Counties, according to the state’s website at  12:20 a.m.*, are set forth below.

Voter turnout was low. Votes cast from Southern Utah, reported thus far, were 5,548 for Iron County and 14,279 for Washington County.

It is no surprise that Mitt Romney took the Republication nomination for the U.S. presidential race. At the bottom of the pile in that race in Utah was Fred Karger who, despite his last ditch three-week campaign push in Utah – which focused more on a gay rights agenda than pursuit of the U.S. Presidency – garnered only 0.25 percent of the vote.

The much publicized race between Dan Liljenquist and Orrin Hatch was not, in the end, close. The senior senator will run for another term. Liljenquist issued his statement of congratulations and assurance of support earlier this evening.

And the incumbent state senator, Casey Anderson, will not have a chance to seek another term in November, as his opponent Evan Vickers took the GOP nomination two to one.

Anderson posted on his own Facebook sometime around 12:30 a.m. “Glad to have run a hard clean race on the record. I called and congratulated my opponent.”

The election results* are:

		Percent	Votes
Federal
Republican Candidate for President
	Mitt Romney	93.03%	202,013
	Ron Paul	4.71%	10,221
	Rick Santorum	1.52%	3,308
	Newt Gingrich	0.49%	1,066
	Fred Karger	0.25%	539
Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate
	Orrin Hatch	66.48%	143,939
	Dan Liljenquist	33.52%	72,567
State
Constitution Party Candidate for Governor
	Kirk Pearson	66.12%	2,061
	Brandon Nay	33.88%	1,056
Republican Candidate for Attorney General
	John Swallow	68%	140,727
	Sean Reyes	32%	66,227
Republican Candidate for State Auditor
	John Dougall	53.82%	103,719
	Auston Johnson	46.18%	88,992
State Senate
Republican Candidate for State Senate District 28
	Evan Vickers	63.74%	6,529
	Casey Anderson	36.26%	3,714
State House
Republican Candidate for House District 72
	John R. Westwood	66.98%	2,679
	Matthew Carling	33.02%	1,321
Iron County
Republican Candidate for Iron County Commission
	Alma Adams	55.66%	2,965
	David Miller	44.34%	2,362
School Board District 2
	Shane Adams	27.50%	382
	Trisha Bentley Robb	18.37%	269
	Ben Johnson	17.93%	249
	Ember Kerr	14.25%	198
	S. Mark Florence	20.95%	291
Washington County
Local School Board District 3
	Aaron D. Randall		1,105
	Debbra Zockoll		1,002

*Delivery of data is partially a manual process and final results may see some variation, despite the state’s reported results reflecting 100 percent precincts in.  Additional absentee ballots to be counted, any recounts, and canvassing may alter the results reflected in this report.

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