Election Notes

Only 8,324 of the 31,911 registered voters bothered to vote in the March election. That's slightly more than 26%.

Of those 8,324 who did vote, more than 17% or 1,429 didn't vote in the county property assessor election. The margin of difference between first and second place in the assessor's race was 383.

According to a recent article in the News Herald, both Larry Brown and Mike Campbell had spent around twenty thousand dollars on their campaigns. Leslie Johnson spent around ten thousand. By the vote, Campbell spent a little less than $7 per vote, Brown spent nearly $8 per vote and Johnson spent a little over $9 per vote. Elections aren't cheap.

Four years ago in the same election, 11,501 voted. But in that election both the democrats and republicans had multiple candidates in the primary election.

While Tennessee went overwhelming for Rick Santorum, Loudon County was one of only four counties in Tennessee that went for Mitt Romney.

Of the 14 voting precincts in Loudon County, Santorum carried 12 with Romney taking only 2. The two precincts going to Romney were the two Tellico Village precincts. The winning margin for Romney in just those two precincts was great enough to overcome Santorum's margin in the other 12 precincts.

Below is a table with precinct totals. Also, links to the Loudon County Election Commission final reports.

Precinct	Gingrich	Paul	Romney	Santorum	Obama	Brown	Campbell	Johnson
Davis	19	7	15	47	2	45	22	15
Browder	64	20	79	136	8	159	84	43
Eatons	229	98	393	492	38	539	412	111
Glendale	87	28	96	140	15	98	132	51
Greenback	86	27	96	132	11	119	128	35
Highland Pk.	173	73	265	279	16	257	316	97
Lenoir Inside	123	55	150	222	44	257	136	127
Lenoir Out	53	31	50	90	5	138	51	31
Loudon Inside	97	36	143	184	37	139	239	67
Loudon Out	89	29	129	152	10	128	184	62
Luttrell	31	6	30	42	3	31	47	11
Philadelphia	40	26	68	114	6	101	88	39
Tellico Vil.	101	25	264	135	32	124	268	79
Tellico Vil. E	357	49	976	470	58	412	823	329

	1549	510	2754	2635	285	2547	2930	1097