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Election Results

General Election - November 2, 2004

7205 ballots were cast, representing 89.8% of the 8025 registered voters in Amherst. 587 new Amherst voters were registered at the polling place today.

For President and Vice President of the United States 3637 George W. Bush "Dick" Cheney REPUBLICAN 3469 John F. Kerry John Edwards DEMOCRAT 36 Ralph Nader Peter Miguel Camejo INDEPENDENT For Governor 3736 Craig R. Benson REPUBLICAN 3336 John Lynch DEMOCRAT For United States Senator 4773 Judd Gregg REPUBLICAN 2158 Doris Granny D Haddock DEMOCRAT For Representative in Congress 4324 Charles Bass REPUBLICAN 2319 Paul W. Hodes DEMOCRAT 255 Richard B. Kahn LIBERTARIAN Question Relating to Constitutional Amendment Proposed by the 2004 General Court 3058 Yes 2293 No        Are you in favor of repealing and reenacting part II, article 73-a of the constitution in order to clarify that both the judiciary and legislature have the authority to regulate court practices and procedures and to resolve potential conflicts that may arise so that it reads as follows: [Art.] 73-a. [Court Practices and Proceedures.] The chief justice of the supreme court shall be the administrative head of all the courts in the state. The chief justice shall have the power with the concurrance of a majority of the other supreme court justices, to make rules of general application regulating court administration and the practice, procedure, and admissability of evidence in all courts in the state. The legislature shall have a concurrent power to regulate the same matters by statutes of general application, except that such legislative enactments may not abridge the judiciary's necessary adjudicatory functions. In the event of a conflict between a rule promulgated by the judiciary and a statute enacted by the legislature, the statute, if not otherwise contrary to the constitution shall prevail ove the rule." (This question is submitted to the voters by the 2004 Legislature on votes of 256 to 89 in the House of Representatives and 18 to 6 in the Senate. CACR 5)

For Executive Councilor 3419 "Dave" Wheeler REPUBLICAN 3193 Debora Pignatelli DEMOCRAT For State Senator 3804 Peter Bragdon REPUBLICAN 2937 Mark Fernald DEMOCRAT For State Representative Eight (8) to win 4884 Peter F. Bergin REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT 4856 Cynthia J. Dokmo REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT 3096 Ryan Hansen REPUBLICAN 4335 "Tim" O'Connell REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT 4169 Robert Rowe REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT 3094 Lee G. Slocum REPUBLICAN 3255 Stephen B. Stepanek REPUBLICAN 2941 James E. Wheeler REPUBLICAN 2616 Jeremy J. Blanchard DEMOCRAT 2552 Peter R. Leishman DEMOCRAT 2264 William Siroty DEMOCRAT 2022 Kevin R. Taylor DEMOCRAT 692 Paul Speiss Write-in 739 Nancy Head Write-in For Sheriff 3854 James A. Hardy REPUBLICAN 2172 Benjamin Clemons DEMOCRAT For County Attorney 5285 Marguerite Lefebvre Wageling REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT For County Treasurer 3696 David G. Fredette REPUBLICAN 2307 Nick Panagopolos DEMOCRAT For Register of Deeds 3797 Judith MacDonald REPUBLICAN 2210 Vicki Meagher DEMOCRAT For Register of Probate 5206 "Bob" Rivard REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRAT For County Commissioner 4166 Carol H. Holden REPUBLICAN 1981 Joseph G. Hickey, Sr. DEMOCRAT