Trump, Sanders win in Jay County

Indiana’s Republican voters backed Donald Trump by 16 percentage points over Ted Cruz. Jay County was even slightly more behind the GOP frontrunner.
Businessman Donald Trump picked up 53 percent of the vote locally Tuesday to dominate rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who later suspended his campaign, in the race for the Republican nomination for president. Ohio Governor John Kasich was a distant third.
In the Democratic race, Jay County voters matched statewide results by supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders by a slight margin over former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. They also backed U.S Representative candidate Tommy Schrader, who knocked off a pair of contenders for the party’s nomination.
In other GOP races, local voters bucked the state by supporting Marlin Stutzman for U.S. Senator and Kip Tom for U.S. Representative by significant margins. Stutzman lost his bid to Todd Young 67 percent to 33 percent, and Tom (31 percent) fell short in a six-candidate race to Jim Banks (34 percent).
Trump was the clear favorite on the Republican side of the presidential race locally, winning all but two of Jay County’s 18 precincts. His best showing came in Jefferson Township, which he won with 64.7 percent of the vote.
Cruz, who finished with 37 percent of the vote in Jay County, earned his only wins in Wabash Township (54 percent) and Bearcreek Township by a single vote (104-103).
John Kasich was the only other of the nine candidates on the ballot to earn more than 2 percent of the vote, finishing at 8 percent.
Ben Carson led the remaining field of candidates, who have all suspended their campaigns, with 1.15 percent in Jay County. Jeb Bush earned 0.98 percent of Jay County votes, followed by Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina, all with less than 0.35 percent. All six had 1 percent or fewer statewide.
The Clinton versus Sanders race was about as close as it could have been among Jay County’s nearly 1,400 Democratic voters. Sanders won 704-692 and earned wins in 10 precincts to Clinton’s seven. (They finished in a dead heat in Pike Township.)
Stutzman, who currently represents Jay County as part of Indiana’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives, dominated locally by taking 16 precincts and 59.7 percent of the vote. Young’s only wins came in the two Dunkirk precincts.
But the reverse was true statewide, with Young earning nearly twice as many votes as Stutzman (658,708-323,542). He advances to the November general election to meet Baron Hill, who was uncontested in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
With six candidates to divvy up the vote, those seeking to take over Stutzman’s House seat were locked in a much closer race.
Tom was the choice in Jay County as he won 14 precincts and 41.3 percent of the vote. Jim Banks took four precincts and a total of 30.1 percent, followed by Liz Brown (15.5 percent), Pam Galloway (7.6), Kevin Howell (3.3) and Mark Baringer (1.5).
But Banks made up for his 386-vote deficit in Jay County elsewhere in District 3, winning the GOP nomination for the seat with 34 percent of the vote to Tom’s 31. Brown was third with 25 percent, and the remaining three candidates failed to reach double figures.
Banks advances to take on Tommy Schrader, who won a tight three-man race both in Jay County and district-wide. Schrader came in at 39.4 percent locally to edge John Roberson (39.2) with Todd Nightenhelser (21.5) a distant third. Schrader’s win in the district, which includes Adams, Wells, Huntington, Allen, Whitely, Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben and part of Kosciusko county in addition to Jay, came in with 38 percent of the vote followed by Nightenhelser (32 percent) and Roberson (31 percent).
John Kasich was the only other of the nine candidates on the ballot to earn more than 2 percent of the vote, finishing at 8 percent.
Ben Carson led the remaining field of candidates, who have all suspended their campaigns, with 1.15 percent in Jay County. Jeb Bush earned 0.98 percent of Jay County votes, followed by Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina, all with less than 0.35 percent. All six had 1 percent or fewer statewide.
The Clinton versus Sanders race was about as close as it could have been among Jay County’s nearly 1,400 Democratic voters. Sanders won 704-692 and earned wins in 10 precincts to Clinton’s seven. (They finished in a dead heat in Pike Township.)
Stutzman, who currently represents Jay County as part of Indiana’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives, dominated locally by taking 16 precincts and 59.7 percent of the vote. Young’s only wins came in the two Dunkirk precincts.
But the reverse was true statewide, with Young earning nearly twice as many votes as Stutzman (658,708-323,542). He advances to the November general election to meet Baron Hill, who was uncontested in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
With six candidates to divvy up the vote, those seeking to take over Stutzman’s House seat were locked in a much closer race.
Tom was the choice in Jay County as he won 14 precincts and 41.3 percent of the vote. Jim Banks took four precincts and a total of 30.1 percent, followed by Liz Brown (15.5 percent), Pam Galloway (7.6), Kevin Howell (3.3) and Mark Baringer (1.5).
But Banks made up for his 386-vote deficit in Jay County elsewhere in District 3, winning the GOP nomination for the seat with 34 percent of the vote to Tom’s 31. Brown was third with 25 percent, and the remaining three candidates failed to reach double figures.
Banks advances to take on Tommy Schrader, who won a tight three-man race both in Jay County and district-wide. Schrader came in at 39.4 percent locally to edge John Roberson (39.2) with Todd Nightenhelser (21.5) a distant third. Schrader’s win in the district, which includes Adams, Wells, Huntington, Allen, Whitely, Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben and part of Kosciusko county in addition to Jay, came in with 38 percent of the vote followed by Nightenhelser (32 percent) and Roberson (31 percent).
John Kasich was the only other of the nine candidates on the ballot to earn more than 2 percent of the vote, finishing at 8 percent.
Ben Carson led the remaining field of candidates, who have all suspended their campaigns, with 1.15 percent in Jay County. Jeb Bush earned 0.98 percent of Jay County votes, followed by Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina, all with less than 0.35 percent. All six had 1 percent or fewer statewide.
The Clinton versus Sanders race was about as close as it could have been among Jay County’s nearly 1,400 Democratic voters. Sanders won 704-692 and earned wins in 10 precincts to Clinton’s seven. (They finished in a dead heat in Pike Township.)
Stutzman, who currently represents Jay County as part of Indiana’s third district in the U.S. House of Representatives, dominated locally by taking 16 precincts and 59.7 percent of the vote. Young’s only wins came in the two Dunkirk precincts.
But the reverse was true statewide, with Young earning nearly twice as many votes as Stutzman (658,708-323,542). He advances to the November general election to meet Baron Hill, who was uncontested in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
With six candidates to divvy up the vote, those seeking to take over Stutzman’s House seat were locked in a much closer race.
Tom was the choice in Jay County as he won 14 precincts and 41.3 percent of the vote. Jim Banks took four precincts and a total of 30.1 percent, followed by Liz Brown (15.5 percent), Pam Galloway (7.6), Kevin Howell (3.3) and Mark Baringer (1.5).
But Banks made up for his 386-vote deficit in Jay County elsewhere in District 3, winning the GOP nomination for the seat with 34 percent of the vote to Tom’s 31. Brown was third with 25 percent, and the remaining three candidates failed to reach double figures.
Banks advances to take on Tommy Schrader, who won a tight three-man race both in Jay County and district-wide. Schrader came in at 39.4 percent locally to edge John Roberson (39.2) with Todd Nightenhelser (21.5) a distant third. Schrader’s win in the district, which includes Adams, Wells, Huntington, Allen, Whitely, Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange, Steuben and part of Kosciusko county in addition to Jay, came in with 38 percent of the vote followed by Nightenhelser (32 percent) and Roberson (31 percent).