15.1 Percent Voter Turnout In Marlborough for Senate Primary

A total of 3218 voters cast their votes at Marlborough polls for the U.S. Senate special election Tuesday as they favored the state's choice of Democrat Edward Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez.

“I'd like to see more than 15 percent," said City Clerk Lisa Thomas around noon on Tuesday when three percent of Marlborough's 21,304 registered voters had visited the polls. “There’s people that don’t even know there is an election today."

Thomas said despite the effort that had been made by the city to inform residents of the election she realistically thought 10 to 13 percent of voters would turn out for in the primary to replace U.S. Senator John Kerry. In the end 3218 voters cast their votes with 215 voters having returned their absentee ballots in the days leading up to the elections.

The voters that put the vote forward at the polls voted in the following numbers:

Democratic Primary:

Blanks: 6
Sephen F. Lynch: 954
Edward J. Markey: 1218
Write-Ins: 6
Total: 2184

Republican Primary:

Blanks: 4
Gabriel Gomez: 519
Michael J. Sullivan: 391
Daniel B. Winslow: 117
Write-Ines: 3
Total: 1034

The general election will be held June 25.