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Show THE 87TH YEAR; NUMBER 14 SO l I 11 U{ :\ l I \11 l :\ I\ U{ SI I \ . l' 1-1 >\ I{ CI I \ , l I \11 WEDNESDAY, NOVEBMER 4, 1992 ELECTION RESULTS U.S. President Clinton-Gore (D) 350"" 40,404,918 Bush-Quayle (R) 157"" 35,663,554 Perot-Stockdale (I) 17,672,566 (* Electoral Vates) U.S Senator Robert F. Bennett (R) Wayne Owens (D) 405,680 288,480 Governor Mike Leavitt (R) Merrill Cook (I) Stewart Hanson (D) 310,713 247,650 167,960 U .S. Representative, District 1 James V. Hansen (R) 152,232 Ron Holt (D) 68,249 - U .S. Representative, District 2 Karen Shepherd (D) 119,1 29 Enid Greene (R) I 09,369 U.S. Representative, District 3 Bill Orton (D) 130,041 Richard Harrington (R) 81,320 Voten turned in large numbers )'l!Sterday to cast their u>tes in what was predicted to be a close presidential race. ~ lines at wting districts wen so long that wters had to wait 20 minutes just to get their ballots, let alone a wting booth. Voter turnout sets precedent Attorney General Jan Graham (D) Scott Burns (R) 348,808 345,645 State Auditor Tom L Allen (R) Harold Black (D) 422,305 249,698 State Treasurer Edward Alter (R) Arthur L Monson (D) 291,713 252,967 S UU student vote may be much lower than was expected, however BY CHERIS TIJCKER Thunderbfrd Editor This may be the biggest voting season in years for Iron County. Vorers totalled 9,857 out of 13,072 registered. According to David Yardley, Iron County clerlc, the high percentage of ~ is most likely due to the presidential, gubernatorial and U.S. senaa: races. The percentage of vorers for Iron County was 75.4, compared said Yardley. Although the clerk had no figures tdling how many students vottd, Rock the v~ registered over 700 suu students to voce, and Bonnie Hennekr, SUUSA senator, and Sandy Lord, SUUSA president, predictl!d most of the students registered 'WOUid voce. Yardley said a large number of students did ~ . but he also n()(M that the districts with overwhelming student populations had the lowest percentages of actual voo:rs. •Di.stricts seven and eight, which have mostly students in them, had 6()..65 percent rumout of ~ r e d ~ . " said Yardley. He compared those numbers with such precincts as Enoch and Summit, which had exttcmely high numbers of vorers. The · to about 60 percent in other years, Enoch precinct had the highest overall rurnout in the district-85 percent "Enoch had 982 people vore out of 1,000 registered," he said. Sue Natali, the Rock the Vore ooordinator for Utah, said the younger age group of lS.24 had a much higher voting rare of registered voters than other age groups. •Of those people registered to vore in the lS.24 c.aregory, 80 percent will vore, as opposed to much smaller percentages in older c.aregories," she said. National polling showed those in the lS.24 c.aregory vored 50 percent for Bill Clinton, 30 percent for George Bush and 20 percent for Ross Perot Figures rd.eased by the Iron County dctk' s office repo~ 1,937 people in Iron County voting straight Republic.an and '400 voting Democratic. There were 20 Populist voters, 16 Independent American Vorer vorers and 11 people voting straight American party. Initiative A, which would have given Utah's 29 counties the choice to legalize pari-mutual wagering, lost by a large margin in Iron County. Those voting against the measure numbered 6,176 and those voting to approve it numbered 3,123. The measure also lost statewide. State Senator, District 29 David Leon .W atson (R) 18,346 David Ogden' Nuffer (D) 8,882 County Commissioner Robert L Gardner (R) James B. "Jim" Case (D) 6,890 2,164 Iron County School District, Precinct 3 Jana Dettamanti 905 Richard Tebbs 785 |