We forgot to put up a thread this morning reminding people of the 37th Representative district to vote today. The special election for replace Joe Booth featured 37 year-old public defender Rob Robinson and 50-something lobbyist and realtor Ruth Briggs King. We’ll post results as we see them.
Department of Elections on-line results.
Update 1: Pretty meaningless, but here it is.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ROBERT H. ROBINSON JR. 40 2 42 40 . 4 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
RUTH BRIGGS KING 57 5 62 59 . 6 %
Update 2: Not sure if this is really low turnout.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ROBERT H. ROBINSON JR. 393 18 411 37 . 1 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
RUTH BRIGGS KING 651 47 698 62 . 9 %
Update 3: based on these numbers, I am calling it. Congratulations to Representative Ruth Briggs King. The lobbyists have a representative in Dover now.
Update 4:
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ROBERT H. ROBINSON JR. 1406 99 1505 43 . 0 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
RUTH BRIGGS KING 1841 154 1995 57 . 0 %
Update 5: Final numbers
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
ROBERT H. ROBINSON JR. 1958 147 2105 46 . 4 %
REPUBLICAN PARTY
RUTH BRIGGS KING 2245 184 2429 53 . 6 %
Congratulations to new state representative King.