(It’s 11:30, and I’m promoting this back to the top with a sign-off (probably) on the evening. Peter Shumlin was just addressing the crowd sounding very optimistic, and from my read he should be. He has a hair’s breadth of a lead at the moment, but looking at what’s still out, I’m hopeful that lead will increase. – odum
– promoted by odum)
Since nobody has started one yet, here’s mine. Feel free to jump in and add your local results.
I just got back from the polls in Montpelier. We usually report early, but there was a memory card malfunction so we were feeding ballots into our one working machine until 9:30.
62% turnout.
Top level results:
Leahy 2640
Britton 490
Welch 2714
Beaudry 497
Shumlin 2445
Dubie 866
Howard 1599
Scott 1363
Condos 2424
Gibbs 738
Hoffer 2220
Salmon 981
State Senate
Cummings 2208
Pollina 1860
Osman 1843
Doyle 1245
Larson 793
Harrington 535.
I don’t ever remember Doyle finishing as low as fourth in Montpelier.
Here are some informal counts in from Marshfield at just before 11 tonight:
Osman 360
cummings 344
Polina 337
doyle 311
Shumlin 405
Dubie 328
Scott 393
Howard 286
Ancel 444
Gray 289
Condos 393 winner here
Attorney General: Dennett66 winner: Sorrel
I don’t have all the results yet, but it looks like a big Dubie vote over Shumlin.
Democrat Jeff Young (the reluctant equal marriage veto overrider) lost in St. Albans City to Dustin Degree. I suspect too little door-to-door, too much controversy in the letters column of the paper, maybe a small amount of backlash for “changing his vote” against equal marriage in supporting the veto override.
That’s one D-seat lost in the House.
Cindy Weed, a P/D running against convicted DUI incumbent Peter Perley in a single-seat district, lost Enosburg (home town for both) by 90 votes, and won Bakersfield by 64, giving a loss by 26 votes overall. We had seen this as a sure win for Weed.
Sen. Randy Brock (R) appears to be cruising to re-election in first place, with Sen. Sara Kittell (D) maintaining second, although not close. Democrat Mike McCarthy (who has posted here) and Republican Judith McLaughlin are swapping third and fourth place depending on the town.
NanuqFC
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. ~ Bertrand Russell