ASHLAND — Final unofficial results show more than three-fourths of registered voters in Ashland County turned out this election cycle.
Ashland County Board of Elections (BOE) unofficial numbers show 26,530 — or 76.3% — voters cast ballots across the county.
A large chunk of those came in the form of early voting. Ashland County BOE data show 39.6% of registered voters applied for absentee ballots.
The majority of voters in Ashland County cast ballots for Republican candidates and causes.
President Donald Trump, for example, earned 74.1% of the vote. Another contentious battle for the U.S. Senate went to Bernie Moreno over Mansfield’s Sherrod Brown. Moreno earned 17,514 votes, or 68.1%.
Voters in Ashland County voted against Issue 1, the state’s only statewide issue aimed at congressional redistricting legislation.
Click here for Ashland County BOE’s unofficial results.
Levies and bonds
Of the 25 levies and bonds across the county, four failed.
A bond issue and tax levy at Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village School District failed by 12.3 percentage points.
It would have generated $9.7 million over 37 years and $500,000 on a continuing basis toward the construction of a new pre-K-12 school.
An additional levy to raise money for roads in Perrysville also failed — this one by wide margins. Voters voted 61.1% against the levy and 38.8% for it.
One of two renewal levies at Hillsdale Local Schools failed.
A 20.1-mill renewal levy for current expenses at the school district failed by 2.3 percentage points.
The renewal levy for permanent improvements at Hillsdale Local Schools passed, but only by 1.5 percentage points.
Shannon Johnson, the BOE’s deputy director, said Wayne County results could change that.
Provisionals
Johnson said the county had a total of 638 provisional ballots.
“With over 600 provisionals, that could make a difference in some of the races,” she said.
The county BOE also had 216 absentee ballots unreturned or unprocessed. Those need to be received by Saturday, Nov. 9 to count, election officials have said.
The board of elections will count provisional ballots during a meeting at 3 p.m. on Nov. 14.
The board will certify the results during a meeting at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 19.