Official 1995 Primary Election Returns

Source: Whatcom County Auditor's Office

Here are the official results of the September 19, 1995 Whatcom CountyPrimary Election. These numbers were typed in from the official electionreleased by the Whatcom County Auditor's Office released on September 28,1995.

Results at a glance

Individual Race Results

This page is maintained by Paul de Armond
Updated: September 30, 1995

Key to the tables:

Absentee: count of the absentee ballots cast.
Polls: This column shows the votes cast at pollingplaces.
Total: This is the combined total of both theabsentees and the votes cast at polling places. The top line of each raceshows the official total for all candidates combined. Theregistration line at the bottom of each race show the total numberof voters registered to vote in each race.
%: This column shows the percentage each candidatereceived of the total official vote.
%Abs: The percentage of absentees for each raceand each candidate is displayed in this column. Traditionally, absentee votershave been slightly more conservative than voters who go to the polls.
Turnout: This figure shows the percentage of votescast compared to the total number of registered voters who were eligible tovote. The turnouts in the various races were remarkably even. Normally,there is a difference, sometimes referred to as falloff. Theconsistant turnouts across the primary races shows that the voters were moreor less equally interested in all the races.

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Official 1995 Primary Results

                             Absentee   Polls   Total      %  %Abs TurnoutPort of Bellingham Dist 3       2,466   3,925   6,391         38.6    22.5Ginny Benton                    1,015   1,607   2,622   41.0  38.7Mike Kenard                       707   1,393   2,100   32.9  33.7Charles E. Lind (withdrew)        744     925   1,669   26.1  44.6registration                                   28,453Whatcom County Executive        8,825  15,753  24,578         35.9    28.4Robert Imhof                      926   1,672   2,598   10.6  35.6Pete Kremen                     5,988  10,558  16,546   67.3  36.2Bill Geyer                      1,911   3,523   5,434   22.1  35.2registration                                   86,533Whatcom Co. Council Dist. 1     2,851   6,012   8,863         32.2    28.6Ken Bell                          806   1,964   2,770   31.3  29.1David B. Hunter                   852   2,104   2,956   33.4  28.8Kathy Sutter                    1,193   1,944   3,137   35.4  38.0registration                                   30,959Whatcom Co. Council Dist. 2     2,561   4,287   6,848         37.4    25.2Alan Shore                        730   1,509   2,239   32.7  32.6Lisa Watkins                      734   1,325   2,059   30.1  35.6Tom Brown                       1,097   1,453   2,550   37.2  43.0registration                                   27,121City of Bellingham Mayor        4,042   7,218  11,260         35.9    30.6Del Lowery                        830   2,053   2,883   25.6  28.8Mark Asmundson                  1,246   2,721   3,967   35.2  31.4Dan Robbins                     1,862   2,244   4,106   36.5  45.3Larry Hopp                        104     200     304    2.7  34.2registration                                   36,792Bellingham Council at Large     3,980   6,975  10,955         36.3    29.8Louise Bjornson                 1,975   4,506   6,481   59.2  30.5Robert Atwood                     317     433     750    6.8  42.3Charlie Landcaster                586     432   1,018    9.3  57.6Orphalee Smith                  1,102   1,604   2,706   24.7  40.7registration                                   36,792B'ham Council Ward 1              620   1,071   1,690         36.7    27.4Bob Ryan                          224     318     542   32.1  41.3George R. Long                    120     349     469   27.8  25.6Ron Adderly                       276     404     680   40.2  40.6registration                                    6,170