2012 Presidential Election results are in for local towns

Nov 7, 2012

If a majority of voters in Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester had their way, Scott Brown would be heading back to Washington for the next six years, and Rochester voters would have sent Mitt Romney to the White House.

Given their say on everything from the presidency to medical marijuana, here’s what voters in our three towns said:

In Marion and Mattapoisett, local voters backed Obama over challenger Romney to serve four more years as president. Rochester voters backed Romney.

In the Senate race, Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren emerged victorious, but voters in the three towns all backed Republican incumbent Brown.

Democrat William Keating won re-election to Congress with the support of a majority in all three towns.

In the race of Governor’s Council, Rochester backed Charles Cipollini over his brother and Democratic candidate Oliver P. Cipollini Jr. for the seat as Councillor. Marion and Mattapoisett favored Oliver, who took the contest with a 55 percent majority in the district.

On the three ballot questions, voters in Marion and Mattapoisett favored the medicinal use of marijuana, prescribing medication to end the life of a terminally ill patient, and establishing a law that would prohibit any motor vehicle manufacturer from selling or leasing a vehicle without allowing the new owner access to that vehicle’s repair information.

While Rochester also favored the latter question and the medicinal use of marijuana, the majority of voters turned thumbs down on the other questions.

Statewide, the so called “right to repair” question won with an 85 percent “yes”s, and assisted suicide was narrowly defeated.

Of its 4,066 registered voters, Rochester saw 3,142, or 78 percent, turn out at the polls on Tuesday. Given the level of attention on this year’s election, Town Clerk Naida Parker said the large turnout was expected.

“We had about 200 absentee ballots so I’m not surprised at all with the turnout,” Parker said.

Mattapoisett saw nearly 86 percent of its registered voters at the polls. With an hour left before the polls closed, Marion Town Clerk Ray Pickles said that 79 percent of registered voters came out.

For local election results, click on the pdf below.