{"id":41895,"date":"2026-11-03T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=41895"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:29:55","slug":"county-voters-show-up-at-44-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/county-voters-show-up-at-44-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"County voters show up at 44% rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initial results from election officials in Adams County have shown a 44% turnout rate for Tuesday&#8217;s midterm election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8708 voters turned out, either in early voting or election day button-pushing, out of 19,761 registered voters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans dominated the results, as expected. County voters cast 2556 straight-ticket Republican ballots to the 777 of local Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County voters favored both of the state constitutional amendments, casting votes in favor of public question on bail at a rate of 65% and for the residence of judges at 63%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In statewide races, Beau Bayh, the democratic candidate for Secretary of State, did better than anyone else from his party, winning 33.7% of the vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were very few contested races for positions in the county, with township government providing the closest races. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Masterson (R) defeated Robert Reef (D) by a count of 59-32. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ROOT TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fred J Kunkel (R) defeated Erica Dyer (D) by a count of 1344 to 612. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corey Affolder (R) defeated Dave Smith (D) by a count of 1327 to 883. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOUTH ADAMS SCHOOL BOARD District 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Benjamin Rediger (R) beat independent Landon Patterson, 1274 to 840.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOUTH ADAMS SCHOOL BOARD District 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Lehman (R) defeated Mitch Sprunger 1676 to 909. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For full results, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.co.adams.in.us\/DocumentCenter\/View\/48113\/2026-General-Election-Summary-Report-Unofficial\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial results from election officials in Adams County have shown a 44% turnout rate for Tuesday&#8217;s midterm election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-41895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41904,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41895\/revisions\/41904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}