Politics & Government
Election Results Roll in for Banning, Beaumont Influenced Races
Find out where the local candidates stand in Tuesday's election.
Editor's Note: Find out the latest election results in t Original story as follows.
Vote totals began rolling in Tuesday night and early Wednesday in the presidential primary election which also had issues and candidates on the ballot for which locals could vote.
Besides casting votes for presidential choices, Pass voters weighed in on candidates of some non-partisan races such as U. S. senator, U.S. Congressional representative, state Assembly member, Riverside County Superior Court Judge and Riverside County Board of Education members.
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Proposition 28 and proposition 29 were also two hot-button issues in the election. If passed, Prop 28 would limit the amount of time state legislators can serve in office from 14 years to 12 years and prop 29 would add a $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes and other equivalent tobacco products.
On election day, Banning-Beaumont Patch stopped by one polling location at the First Assembly of God church on Beaumont Ave., which was hosting two precincts: 54029 and 54032.
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By 6 p.m., that location had seen several hundred voters come through the doors. One of those was first-time voter 19-year-old Audrey Miller.
Miller said she came out to vote because she wanted to make sure she got her vote in for proposition 29-- to which she voted yes.
"I know cigarettes kill and cause cancer and I'd like to see money go to fight that," she said.
Though Miller wanted to be sure to vote-- she didn't want to vote on issues to which she didn't feel informed, so she said she abstained from voting for local politicians.
There were 852,059 registered voters in Riverside County as of June 1, according to the Riverside County Registrar of Voters Office. Of those, 310,449 —or 36.4 percent—were registered Democrats. Registered Republicans made up 40.6 percent, nearly 19 percent listed no party preference, 2.9 were American Independent, .30 percent were registered with the Green Party, .58 percent were Liberatarion, and .26 percent were Peace and Freedom.
As of midnight Wednesday, the following results were provided by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters:
United States Senator (only showing top 5) 516/853 precincts reporting, 60.49% Vote Count Percent DIANNE FEINSTEIN 55,425 37.34% ELIZABETH EMKEN 22,081 14.88% DAN HUGHES 12,819 8.64% GREG CONLON 7,697 5.19% RICK WILLIAMS 6,430 4.33%US Representative 36th District 173/299 precincts reporting, 57.86% Vote Count Percent MARY BONO MACK 37,988 58.06% RAUL RUIZ 27,444 41.94% Total 65,432 100.00%
State Assembly 42nd District 80/153 precincts reporting, 52.29% Vote Count Percent BRIAN NESTANDE 22,551 60.20% MARK ANTHONY OROZCO 14,909 39.80% Total 37,460 100.00%
State Senator 23rd District 83/143 precints reporting, 58.04% Vote Count Percent BILL EMMERSON 18,715 65.57% MELISSA RUTH O'DONNELL 9,828 34.43% Total 28,543 100.00%
Proposition 28-Limits on Legislators terms 516/853 precincts reporting, 60.49% Vote Count Percent YES 97,714 62.21% NO 59,362 37.79% Total 157,076 100.00%
Proposition 29-Additional tax on cigarettes 516/853 precincts reporting, 60.49% Vote Count Percent NO 95,921 60.23% YES 63,337 39.77% Total 159,258 100.00%
Click here to see the full list of Riverside County election results.
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