~ PVN staff report
LURAY, March 6 — Tuesday’s outcome in the Dual Presidential Primary came as no surprise to anyone. It has seemed a foregone conclusion for some time that Donald J. Trump (R) and Joseph R. Biden (D) will be the presidential nominees in the 2024 race for the Oval Office. Page County’s outcome showed no different.
Former President Trump won 63 percent of the statewide ballots cast in Virginia’s Republican Presidential Primary on Tuesday, with 434,905 votes. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Hailey earned 35 percent, with 237,981 votes. Ron DeSantis earned 2 percent (7,385 votes), while Chris Christie, Ryan Binkley and Vivek Ramaswamy each earned less than 1 percent of the vote.
In Page County, Trump captured 1,567 of the 1,833 ballots cast countywide. The former president got the biggest boost in District 3 with 333 votes, while the least came in District 1 with 188 votes. Hailey picked up 240, with her biggest support in District 2 (56 votes) and least in District 5 (19 votes). The next closest competitor was DeSantis with 15 total votes.
The GOP primary drew a 10.5 percent turnout among Page County’s 17,386 registered voters.
President Biden earned 89 percent of the vote statewide and 83 percent of the vote in Page County during Tuesday’s Democratic Presidential Primary. Biden received 306,598 votes statewide, while his closest competitor Marianne Williamson earned 27,087 votes (8 percent). Dean Phillips had 12,017 votes (3.5 percent).
In Page County, Biden received 211 of the 253 ballots cast. Williamson had 23 and Phillips 19. Biden did best in District 1 and 2, and worst in Districts 4 and 5. The voter turnout for the Democratic primary was only 1.5 percent (253 ballots among 17,386 registered voters).
In the 2020 Democratic primary, the voter turnout in Page County was 8.4 percent of the county’s then-15,800 estimated registered voters. Biden won 693 of the 1,325 ballots cast, as Senator Bernie Sanders finished second.
Trump gained more than 70 percent of Page County ballots in both presidential bids of 2016 and 2020.
To review Virginia election results visit
https://www.elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/election-results/
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