Politics & Government

Live: 2012 Primary Election Results

Follow along live as the March 20 primary election results roll in. We will have results from the GOP presidential primary down to local referendum questions. After the polls close we'll update you with the latest results.

Election judges at various polling places expressed disappointment Tuesday at what they believed was a low voter turnout.

Brian Fox, who has served as a judge for 20 years, was among them. He said around 3 p.m. that 89 of precinct 57's 976 voters had showed up to cast their ballots.

"It's the primary, too, so I sensed it might be this way," he said while working the polling place at the "We used to have two precincts here and now we only have the one, so we've been directing people elsewhere for part of the day."

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100 percent of precincts reporting

Percentage Total Votes Yes 63.8 4,677 No 36.2 2,652

99 percent of precincts reporting

Republicans Percentage Total Votes Mitt Romney 47.8 430,535 Ron Paul 8.77 85,872 Rick Perry .34 1176 Newt Gingrich 8 73,362 Rick Santorum 34.9 322,831 Buddy Roemer .19 772 Democrats Percentage Total Votes Barack Obama 100 414,993

99 percent of precincts reporting

Democrats Percentage Total Votes 2.6
1,938 3.4
2,552 4.2 3,177
83.7 62,897
2.9 2,196 3.1 2,368 Republicans Percentage Total Votes 69.3 16,208 24.4 5,713 6.4 1,484

100 percent of precincts reporting

Democrats Percentage Total Votes 87.3 43,851  12.7 6,389  Republicans Percentage Total Votes 59.3 20,737  29.7 10,373 11 3,838

100 percent of precincts reporting

Democrats Percentage Total Votes
76.9 11,338
23.1 3,412

No Republican candidate

(R-New Lenox), uncontested

100 percent reporting

Democrats Percentage Total Votes
71.8 8,239 28.2 3,232


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