Republicans Donald Trump and Eric Greitens received the nod for their first trips to elected office, while Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., was re-elected to his seat.
Nearly 2.8 million people voted yesterday in Missouri, according to the
Missouri secretary of state’s unofficial results tally. In Greene County, over 130,000 people, or 68.7 percent of registered voters, turned out to the polls, according to
GreeneCountyMo.gov.
President
Trump earned 279 electoral votes, exceeding the 270 needed to win, to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 218 electoral votes. Clinton tallied 59.6 million ballots cast, or 47.6 percent of the popular vote, a shade above Trump’s 59.4 million, or 47.5 percent, according to a study of the election by
The New York Times.
Trump won Missouri with 1.6 million votes, or 56.9 percent of ballots cast. Clinton received 37.9 percent of the popular vote in the Show-Me State.
In Greene County, Trump received over 77,380 votes, or 59.8 percent. Clinton got 42,400 votes, or 32.8 percent, in the county.
Governor
Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, appealed to voters as a political outsider in his win against Democrat Chris Koster, Missouri’s attorney general.
In Missouri’s gubernatorial race, the Republican nominee took 1.4 million, or 51.3 percent, of the votes statewide, followed by Koster at 1.23 million votes, or 45.4 percent, according to to the secretary of state’s website.
In Greene County, Greitens took home nearly 73,000 votes, or 56.7 percent. Koster earned nearly 51,000 votes, or 39.5 percent of ballots cast.
U.S. Senate and House
In a close race, Missourians elected to keep Blunt as one of the state’s two senators.
The incumbent Republican won 1.4 million votes statewide, or 49.3 percent. Democratic challenger Jason Kander, Missouri’s current secretary of state, pulled in 1.3 million votes, or 46.2 percent.
The divide was deeper in Greene County, according to the unofficial election results.
Blunt received around 73,000 votes, or 56.2 percent, against Kander’s nearly 51,000 votes, or 39.3 percent, in the county.
For the seventh district of the U.S. House of Representatives, incumbent Republican Billy Long received over 228,000 votes, or 67.6 percent, to defeat Democrat Gen Williams.
State races
In addition to the Missouri governor’s race, Republicans took all four of the other top state positions on the ballot, according to the unofficial results by the secretary of state.
In the lieutenant governor’s race, Mike Parson won over Russ Carnahan with 1.5 million votes, or 53 percent.
Josh Hawley defeated Teresa Hensley to become Missouri’s attorney general with 1.6 million votes, or 58.7 percent.
For secretary of state, Jay Ashcroft earned 1.6 million votes, or 57.8 percent, to beat Robin Smith.
Eric Schmitt got the nod for state treasurer with 1.5 million votes, or 56.7 percent. He beat Democrat Judy Baker.
In Greene County, eight state representative seats were on the ballot. The winning candidates, by district number and vote tallies, were:
• 130: Republican Jeff Messenger, 14,124; Democrat Ella Goeppinger, 3,729;
• 131: Republican Sonya Anderson, 10,169; Democrat Nate Branscom, 4,126;
• 132: Democrat Crystal Quade, 5,176; Republican Thomas Quinn, 4,207;
• 133: Republican Curtis Trent, 12,288, Democrat Jim Clemmons, 5,695;
• 134: Republican Elijah Haahr, 9,812; Democrat Angela Pryor, 6,262;
• 135: Republican Steve Helms, 8,142; Democrat Randy Alberhasky, 7,142;
• 136: Republican Kevin Austin, 8,956; Democrat Jeff Munzinger, 5,111;
• 137: unopposed Republican Lyndall Fraker, 18,472.
Amendments and propositions
On Constitutional Amendment 1, 80.1 percent of Missourians voted in favor of continuing a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax used to fund soil and water conservation at state parks and historic sites.
Nearly 70 percent of Missouri voters approved Constitutional Amendment 2, which establishes limits and other rules on campaign contributions.
On Constitutional Amendment 3, 59.2 percent of voters bat down a measure to increase taxes on cigarettes through 2020 and create a fee paid by cigarette wholesalers for education funding. A similar measure, Proposition A, also was voted down by 55.3 percent of Missourians. It would have created new cigarette taxes to fund transportation infrastructure projects.
Constitutional Amendment 4 earned 57.1 percent of votes in favor of prohibiting new state or local sales and use taxes on services that did not have those taxes as of Jan. 1, 2015.
Roughly 63 percent of ballots cast approved Constitutional Amendment 6 requiring residents to present a government-issued photo ID in order to vote.
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