Marshall County seemed to follow the state trends when it came to the final outcome of the 2016 Primary Election in Kentucky on Tuesday.
In the Democratic Primary for US President, Bernie Sanders took 2,309 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 1,478 on his way to a victory in Marshall County, the only race where it differed from the statewide race, but not by much.
Clinton, who was expected to comfortably take the Commonwealth by political commentators, edged Sanders with an overall vote total of 212,550 to 210,626, a difference of .4%.
While the national race saw a tense battle, the other statewide races were anything but on both the county and state level.
In the US Representative District 1 Republican Primary, James Comer nearly doubled second place Mike Pape in Marshall County with an 803 vote total to Pape’s 416. Overall, Comer took the election, and most likely the seat held for over two decades by retiring Ed Whitfield, taking 24,342 votes to Pape’s 9,357, a difference of nearly 40 percent.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Primary was uncontested in the US Representative race as Tom Osborne dropped out before the election, giving the nod to Samuel Gaskins in the General Election, where Comer is heavily favored to win.
In the race for US Senator, former presidential candidate and incumbent Rand Paul (R) cruised into the November election as he held a commanding lead throughout the night over James Gould, winning in Marshall County 1,382 to 143, which compared to his overall margin of an 76 percent margin of victory over Gould with a total of 169,180 votes to 16,611.
Finally, Paul will be challenged by Democrat Jim Gray who won a seven-person battle by taking 2,974 votes in Marshall County, compared to Ron Leach’s 339, while he took 58.74 percent and 240,613 of the statewide total, compared to second place Sellus Wilder who took 12.87 percent and 52,728 votes.
In all, 669,850 Kentuckians voted in Tuesday’s election, a turnout of 20.65 percent.
In Marshall County, 6,250 voted, a turnout of 25 percent.
All these totals are unofficial