POLITICS Campbell wins primary with 45.6% of...

POLITICS

Campbell wins primary with 45.6% of votes

Republican state Sen. John Campbell on Tuesday took the most votes

in a special primary to fill the 48th District Congressional seat,

but his 45.6% of the ballots cast wasn’t enough to head off a general

election, which is set for Dec. 6.

Had Campbell won 50% plus one vote, he would have become the

successor to Rep. Chris Cox, who left to chair the Securities and

Exchange Commission.

In the general election, Campbell will face the winning candidates

from four other parties: American Independent Party candidate Jim

Gilchrist, who received 14.6% of the vote; Democrat Steve Young, who

ended the race with 8.7%; and Libertarian Bruce Cohen and Green Party

candidate Bea Tiritilli, who each took less than 1% of the vote.

Few voters showed up to the polls Tuesday, with just 22.4% of the

district’s 402,006 registered voters participating. More than 63% of

the people who voted cast absentee ballots.