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Show PRIMARY VOTE SHOWS CHANGE IN PARTY TREND In spite of the efforts of persons per-sons organized to work in the interests of the candidates of individuals in-dividuals contesting for places on the ballots at the November 7 general election, there were 50 per cent fewer votes cast in Precinct Pre-cinct 10 primary election of Tuesday Tues-day than in the primary election of 1940. The vote for Governor Herbert B. Maw, opposed by Stanley Child, in the six districts in this precinct totaled 288. Mr. Child received 109 votes. In the primary pri-mary in 1940 Maw was one of six candidates and his supporters gave him 240 votes as compared to the 408 votes garnered for Henry D. Moyle, who lost out over the state. The total vote given 1940 Democratic gubernatorial guber-natorial candidates came to 819. Democrats outnumbered Republicans Re-publicans two to one in the 1940 primaries. Glancing at the vote cast for Republican candidates for governor at Tuesday's election, elec-tion, it is apparent that one of two things happened in this district: dis-trict: either a large share of Democrats De-mocrats failed to turn out and vote, or Re-ublicans have Pained Pain-ed strength. On the basis of returns re-turns Tuesday, the Democratic two to one lead of 1940 has dwindled to a 27 per cent lead. Of much interest in this precinct pre-cinct was the variance of individual indi-vidual communities. Copperton was nearly two to one Republican. Republi-can. The two Binham districts went Democratic by very slight margins, how slight can best be shown by district 352's vote for governor, Republican votes 80 and Democratic 81. Copperfield went Democratic, nearly four to one. The results in Highland Boy were similar, only more so. Lark remains Democratic by a two to one margin. Individual candidates who received re-ceived surprisingly heavy support sup-port were Dr. Adam S. Bennion, who is now the Republican nominee nom-inee for U. S. Senator (locally he received over six times as many votes as the combined total given giv-en his opponents) and J. Bracken Lee, .who received twice as many votes as his opponent, Reed E. Vetterli, over the state, and had over four times as many votes as Vetterli in precinct 10. Lee will oppose Maw in the November 7 election. o |