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Show DEMOCRATS LEAD IN NOV. 3 VOTE Of the 1461 residents of Bingham Bing-ham district . casting ballots in Tuesday's election, 64.4 per cent voted the Democratic ticket, a glance at tabulations turned in by election judges reveals. Unofficial Un-official returns show that the candidates for' ' representative from the second congressional district; receiyed these totals: Democrat J. W. Robinson, 941, and Republican Reed E. Vetterli, 530. The vote was not as .heavy as that usually cast in" 'the district. In the general election of 1940 there were a total of 2521 voters reporting at the polls. Of this number 74 per cent supported President Roosevelt in his third term campaign. Even with this majority approval of the Democratic Demo-cratic leader, the Republicans of this district had over a 25 per cent gain in strength in percentage percent-age of Republican votes cast for Alf Landon as the GOP standard stand-ard bearer in 1936. In 1938 Democrat Elbert D. Thomas, opposing Republican Franklin Harris in the race for a seat in the U. S. senate, received re-ceived 61.5 per cent of the 1833 votes cast. ' --i Tuesday's voting showed two trends: (1) disinterest of many in matters political, reflected in lighter voting; and (2). a greater percentage of Republican votes. No. 2 on Tuesday's ballot, the referendum on the chain store tax, was defeated in Bingham by about the same majority as elsewhere else-where in the state, 2.14 per cent voting against the tax for every one person voting for it The defeat de-feat of the measure, the most controversial legislation of the 1941 session, was a decisive expression ex-pression (68.3 per cent) of the voters' disapproval of this type of taxation. Most observers credited cred-ited interest in No. 2 in "getting out the vote". ' Any change in rates of pay for state legislators was opposed by Bingham voters 317 for ;as compared com-pared with 586 against. Francis A. Miller, candidate for justice of peace, received the largest lar-gest number of votes given any one-individual, 996 ballots. |
