Vienna Votes: Romney Sweeps In Primary
Vienna turnout higher than state average, but lower than area average in 2008
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About 62 percent of voters at Vienna precincts Tuesday gave their support to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, falling in line with the overwhelming support for Romney across Virginia.
But it was a marked departure from the overwhelming support area residents gave Ron Paul in the same election four years ago, when Paul beat Romney by just one vote in the Hunter Mill District and by a slightly larger margin in nearby Providence.
While voters this year turned out to Vienna precincts at rate higher than the state and county averages of about 5 percent or the Hunter Mill District average of 6.1 percent, not nearly as many residents voted this year as in the 2008 primaries.
Though Flint Hill and Wolftrap again saw the highest turnout among Vienna-area precincts, with 9.2 and 8.9 percent of voters casting ballots, respectively, they received only about half of the total votes cast in 2008.
Most Vienna precincts hovered around 6 or 7 percent. Newly-formed Precinct 204 saw just 50 votes, about 5.8 percent of its registered voters. The Tysons Precinct had the lowest percentage of voters turn out, with 4.3 percent.
Romney also won Fairfax County with about 65 percent of the vote.
Romney and Paul were the only two candidates to appear on the ballot Tuesday, but some voters like Vienna's Deb Maddrell weren't optimistic about Mitt Romney or Ron Paul securing the GOP nomination for the presidential race.
"But you have to vote anyways," she said.
Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, both Virginia residents, didn't meet requirements to make Virginia's ballot.
A look at how the candidates stacked up across Vienna:
| Ron Paul |
Mitt Romney |
Total Votes |
Active Registered Voters | % | |
| Precinct 202, Flint Hill: Flint Hill Elementary School |
68 |
194 |
279 | 3,048 | 9.2 |
| Precinct 204, Madison: James Madison High School |
17 |
26 | 50 | 865 | 5.8 |
| Precinct 213, Vienna No.1: Cunningham Park Elementary |
102 | 127 | 246 |
3,837 | 6.4 |
| Precinct 214, Vienna No.2: Vienna Community Center | 66 |
152 |
226 |
3,029 | 7.5 |
| Precinct 216, Vienna No.4: Cedar Lane School | 41 |
67 |
108 |
1,428 | 7.6 |
| Precinct 218, Vienna No.6: James Madison High School |
43 |
75 |
131 |
2,077 | 6.3 |
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Precinct 219, Westbriar: Westbriar Elementary |
66 | 167 | 240 |
3,483 | 6.9 |
| Precinct 226, Wolftrap: Wolftrap Elementary School | 92 |
201 | 303 | 3,402 | 8.9 |
| Precinct 704, Freedom Hill: Freedom Hill Elementary | 37 | 89 | 130 |
2,048 | 6.3 |
| Precinct 719, Stenwood: Stenwood Elementary School | 23 | 39 | 63 | 991 | 6.4 |
| Precinct 720, Thoreau: Thoreau Middle School | 46 | 83 | 136 | 1,637 | 8.3 |
| Precinct 729, Nottoway: Hunter House, Nottoway Park | 75 |
138 |
227 | 3,568 | 6.4 |
| Precinct 731, Tysons: Providence Committee Meeting Room, 7921 Jones Branch Road, McLean | 37 | 70 | 118 | 2,748 | 4.3 |
| Precinct 733, Kilmer: Kilmer Middle School | 81 | 125 |
215 | 3,827 | 5.6 |
| Vienna-area totals |
794 |
1,553 |
2,472 |
| Ron Paul | Mitt Romney | Total Votes | Active Registered Voters |
% | |
| Hunter Mill District | 1,702 | 2,878 | 4,812 | 79,103 | 6.1 |
| Providence District | 1,377 |
2,294 | 3,869 | 67,109 | 5.8 |
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Flint Hill Elementary School
2444 Flint Hill Rd, Vienna, VA -
Madison High School
2500 James Madison Dr, Vienna, VA -
Cunningham Park Elementary School
1001 Park St SE, Vienna, VA -
Vienna Community Center
120 Cherry St SE, Vienna, VA
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Cedar Lane School
101 Cedar Ln SW, Vienna, VA -
Westbriar Elementary School
1741 Pine Valley Dr, Vienna, VA -
Wolftrap Elementary School
1903 Beulah Rd, Vienna, VA -
Freedom Hill Elementary School
1945 Lord Fairfax Rd, Vienna, VA -
Stenwood Elementary School
2620 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA -
Thoreau Middle School
2505 Cedar Ln, Vienna, VA -
Nottoway Park
9601 Courthouse Rd, Vienna, VA -
Kilmer Middle School
8100 Wolftrap Rd, Vienna, VA
J Anderson
10:16 am on Wednesday, March 7, 2012
I'm from Wolftrap. Total says 303 votes but if you add them up it's 293. There were no write in's. I didn't check other totals. Can some folks go vote but then not cast a vote?
Erica R. Hendry
11:19 am on Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The discrepancy is likely in the number of people who requested an absentee ballot, but then didn't hand it in: The totals number of votes include those cast in person and "the number of voters who applied for absentee ballots not the number of absentee ballots returned and counted," according to Fairfax County. The total under candidate's name includes ONLY those cast in person and those returned by the absentee deadline.
It IS also possible that some voters handed in a blank ballot. For example, at Wolftrap, it says 294 people voted in person and 9 requested an absentee ballot (to get to 303). Yet, Romney and Paul only got 293 votes combined. Based on those numbers, it looks like none of the absentees at Wolftrap completed their ballot, and one person handed in an empty, which brings you back down to 293.
Hope that helps -- I'm uploading the full spreadsheet from the county so people can check out what happened in their own precincts.