Politics & Government

Simsbury Residents Approve Revised Charter; Official 2012 Election Results Announced

Voters approve revised town charter; John Hampton chosen to represent Simsbury in the 16th Assembly District.

The revised Simsbury Town Charter was approved by voters on Tuesday by a wide margin.

Official results of the 2012 election in Simsbury were released Wednesday afternoon by the Simsbury Registrar of Voters. The charter passed with 5,717 votes in favor and 2,327 votes against.

"I'm very pleased that the voters of Simsbury overwhelmingly chose to approve the changes made by the Charter Revision Commission and approved for the ballot by the Board of Selectman," commission member Darren Cunningham said. 

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The commission was a group of 8 unaffiliated republican and democratic voters who spent over a year working on revising the charter, according to Cunningham.

"Yesterday's voting result confirms the work of the Commission," Cunningham said. "I'd like to thank all the members for their hard work and input and especially congratulate Chairman Rob Heagney on a job well done.  The Town of Simsbury continues to be well served by its citizen-volunteers."

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Results of the presidential, congressional, senatorial, and statewide races remain, for the most part, unchanged from the results posted Tuesday night.

2012 Simsbury Election Results

Presidential

Obama/Biden 6,853 Romney/Ryan 6,710 Anderson/Rodriguez 39 Johnson/Gray 140 Stein/Honkola 9

U.S. Senate

Linda McMahon 6,346 Chris Murphy 6,341 Murphy (Working Families) 222 McMahon Independent 289 Passarelli 214

5th Congressional District

Roraback (R) 6,464 Esty (D) 6,007 Esty (Working Families) 271 Roraback (Independent) 359 Pistone 2

8th Senatorial District

Kevin Witkos (R) 7,708 Dan Seger (D) 5,019 Seger (Working Families) 256

16th Assembly District

John Hampton (D) 6,890 Charity Folk (R) 6,063 Robert Kalechman (I) 134

Revised Town Charter

Yes 5,717 No 2,327

Results include ballots, absentee ballots, overseas ballots, and handwritten early overseas ballots.


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