Although Romney won 98 percent of Wyoming’s vote, according to the Huffington Post, Barack Obama was elected for a second term as president Tuesday after he received 303 electoral votes while Mitt Romney received 203, by press time.
Romney held the lead early in the night beginning with 33 electoral votes to Obama’s three. Romney and Obama leveled off in the middle of the night tying with 162 electoral votes.
By the end of the election, it was determined that Obama was calculated to have 49.4 percent of the popular vote and 303 electoral votes and Romney had 49.2 percent of the popular vote and 203 electoral votes.
For Albany County, Romney won with 49.4 percent and Obama had 43.82 percent.
“I was hoping for a hundred percent voter turnout this year and we actually had greater than that number, “ Albany County Clerk Jackie Gonzalez said. “We have a little more than 3,500 absentee votes that we’re still counting so I’m not sure if we’ll have any surprises yet or not.”
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 4.34 percent of the votes in Albany County while Constitution Party candidate Virgil H. Goode had .56 percent of the votes.
Sen. John Barrasso will remain in office, receiving 57.4 percent of the votes in Albany County against Tim Chesnut who received about 37.65 percent of the votes in Albany County. Wyoming Country Party candidate Joel Otto had 2.24 percent.
Democrat Tim Sullivan will remain as County Commissioner with 48.93 percent while opponent and Republican candidate Shelley J. Towler received 42.91 percent.
Republican incumbent Cynthia Lummis will remain as U.S. Representative with 51.3 percent of the votes in Albany County. Democratic candidate Chris Henrichsen had almost 36.27 percent of the votes, Libertarian Richard P. Brubaker had 5.6 percent, Constitution candidate Daniel Clyde Cummings had 1.43 percent, with Country Party candidate Don Willis having 1.35 percent.
State senator for district 10 Phil Nicholas ran unopposed and received 71.16 percent of the votes with write-ins receiving 6.67 percent.
State Representative for District 13 Cathy Connolly, the Democratic candidate, also ran unopposed and received 75 percent of the votes, while write-ins received 3.12 percent of the votes.
Republican Kermit C. Brown won the State Representative seat for District 14 with 57.1 percent of the votes with Democratic candidate Tim Nyquist received 33.14 percent.
Republican candidate Matt Greene won the seat for State Representative for District 45 with 49.61 percent while Democrat Tony Mendoza had 45.95 percent. Glenn Moniz was the Republican candidate for District 46 and won with 57.67 percent. Democrat Kennedy Penn-O’Toole had 36.82 percent. Republican Jerry Paxton took District 47 with 76.52 percent and Libertarian candidate Michael Hendricks had 18.18 percent.
Joseph Vitale will represent Ward 3 for City Council, taking 45.47 percent of the votes while opponent Rebecca Riley had 36.85 percent. Paul Weaver and Vicki Henry will represent Ward 1. Henry received 17.76 percent and Weaver received 21.79 percent. Opponent Matthew Blaylock received 15.14 percent and Erik Molvar received 14.31 percent. Jayne Pearce and Joe Shumway will represent Ward 2. Pearce had 17.28 percent and Shumway had 21.4 percent. Guillermo “Bill” Brizuela had 11.17 percent and Scott Mullner had 16.6 percent.
Amendment A passed in Albany County with almost 62.45 percent voters for it. Amendment A will allow Wyoming to exclude itself from the Affordable Care Act.
Amendment B, which would preserve the right to hunt and trap wildlife to Wyoming citizens, passed in Albany County with almost 79.02 percent of voters wanting to pass the amendment.
Amendment C also passed with 48.73 percent of the votes in Albany County. The amendment will allow district court commissioners to absorb some of the duties of district court judges in times of heavy case loads.
The county transportation did not pass with 48.05 percent of voters against and 45.93 voters against the tax. The county sales tax for the Laramie Economic Development Center failed with only 35.62 percent of the voters in favor of the tax and 58 percent against the tax.
These results are not considered final until the County Canvassing Board meeting on Nov. 7.
