Primary Election After Action Report

The at Large primary preliminary vote totals
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The recent primary election played out as expected by Quincy Quarry News for the most part, albeit with a few surprises.

In the eight person race to cut down to six candidates to compete for three at Large council seats in November’s general election, the two newcomers who were expected by Quincy Quarry News to fall by the wayside care of the primary election did so.

And as for surprises, the former at Large Councillor running for a return to a councillor topped the field as well as by a fair margin over the usual at Large top vote-getter and who dreams of someday being the next mayor who instead finished second in spite of littering Quincy with his campaign yard signs.

The Ward 6 primary preliminary vote totals
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The bigger surprise was that the first time female Asian candidate come in  fourth with solidly respectable numbers.

So respectable was her vote total that if she can maintain her momentum she could conceivably overtake the incumbent third place finisher. 

And as for the only other primary, while the Ward 6 incumbent topped the field, it was barely by 2% over the second place finisher who received 35% of the vote.with two other contenders splinting the remaining 28% of the votes cast in a race that saw a 60% greater turnout than was the case for the at Large council seats race.

Vote early, vote often …
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In short, the narrow margin lead by the incumbent does not bode well for him come the November’s general election.

Then again, this always a silver-lining: as longtime local figure Atherton Hough noted in an earlier Quincy Quarry News story on the primary earlier this week, the post office is always looking for holiday help.

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