Politics & Government
Election Results Are In: Creve Coeur Township Voters Backed Obama, Nixon, McCaskill & The Tobacco Tax
The St. Louis County Board of Elections has now posted a township by township breakdown of election results from November 6, 2012.
We've known who won and lost in November's elections for more than a month, but now we know specifically how residents in Creve Coeur township cast their ballots, according to information from the St. Louis County Board of Elections.
Among the notable races:
President Votes %
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Barack Obama (D) 11, 219 52.7
Mitt Romney (R) 9, 681 45.5
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Gary Johnson (L) 262 1.2
Invalid Write-Ins 70 .33
Virgil Goode (C) 22 .10
U.S. Senate Votes %
Claire McCaskill (D) 12,927 62.17
Todd Akin (R) 6,883 33.10
Jonathan Dine (L) 918 4.42
Write In 64 .31
U.S. Rep. Votes %
Glenn Koenen (D) 8,449 46.36
Ann Wagner (R) 9,250 50.75
Bill Slantz (L) 429 2.35
Anatol Zorikova (C) 85 .47
Invalid Write-In 12 .07
Overall, the township's Democratic-leaning base was borne out in the results. Susan Montee, the Democratic Party candidate for Lt. Governor won the township but lost the overall race to Peter Kinder.
Most notably in other contests, Creve Coeur Township voters widely approved of Proposition B, which would have raised the tobacco tax.
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