Shaking Out Tuesday's Primary: The Who Did What Summary

Here are the (unofficial) Contra Costa County numbers for primaries in Danville and Alamo. This is how it shook out... what do you think?

Posted by Terry Parris Jr., June 6, 2012 at 06:55 am

will be District 2 Supervisor as she notched a smidge more than 60 percent of the vote. came in second with 27.54 percent.

In the U.S. Senator Primary, Republican challenger and Danville resident grabbed enough of the vote to land second place behind longtime Democrat Dianne Feinstein. . Emken was one of more than 20 challengers going against Feinstein.

With 97 percent of the precincts reporting statewide (at the time of publishing this), Proposition 28, which reduced legislative term limits from 14 to 12 years, is poised to pass with 61.5 percent voting in favor of the measure.

Proposition 29, which adds $1 tax to each pack of cigarettes, on the other hand, was up and down all night Tuesday. With 97 percent of the precincts reporting (at the time of publishing), Prop 29's differential was razor thin with 50.8 percent voting no and 49.2 percent voting yes.

Longtime Democrat George Miller will face off against Republican Virginia Fuller for the District 11 Congressional seat on Nov. 6. Both candidates were the top two vote getters out of a four-person race.

There were only two candidates in both the District 7 State Senate primary and the District 16 State Assembly primary. All four candidates will continue on and battle it out in their respective races on Nov. 6 in the general election.