The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 8, 1984 - Page 5
Final Election Results
Following are the final results of Tuesday's voting for major parties with
100 percent of the precincts reporting. They were compiled from staff and
wire reports. The totals in the campus column were derived by examining
the, results in the voting precincts closest to the University campus and
student neighborhoods. Names of the winners are in boldface type.
President........Campus City Total
Walter Mondale (D) ............... 9,380 29,723 36,930,923
Ronald Reagan (R) ................ 5,043 21,580 53,428,357
Prosecuting Attorney
George Sallade (D) ............................
William Delhey (R) ...........................
County sheriff
James Douglas (D) ............................
Ronald Schebil (R) ............................
22,984
21,468
22,561
22,306
U.S. Senator
Carl Levin (D) .....................
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Susan Greenburg (D) .......................... 23,971
Robert Harrison (R) ........................... 19,003
10,151
Carl Levin (D) ..................... 10,151
Jack Lousma (R) .................. 3,662
U.S. House - Second District
Mike McCauley (D) ................ 6,958
Carl Pursell (R) ................... 5,613
33,165
33,165
17,286
20,960
25,483
State House - 53rd District
Perry Bullard (D) ................. 8,698
Paul Jensen (R)................... 3,113
University of Michigan Regents
Marjorie Lansing (D) .............. 7,837 25,471
Robert Nederlander (D)........... 8,281 27,017
Neal Nielsen (R) .................. 3,460 15,979
Veronica Latta Smith (R) .......... 4,031 17,420
State Board of Education City
Gumecindo Sala (D) ......................22,372
John Watanen (D) ........................22,727
Dorothy Beardmore (R) ....................... 18,608
Cherry Jacobus (R) ........................... 17,407
Michigan State University Trustees
June Kretzschmer (D) ......................... 22,431
Charles Vincent (D)..... ................... 22,093
Dean Pridgeon (R) ............................ 16,695
Kathy Wilbur (R).............................. 17,535
Wayne State University Governors
Winifred Fraser (D) ........................... 22,456
Denise Lewis (D) ......................... 22,625
Gary Artinian (R) ............................. 15,698
George Bashara (R) ........................... 17,007
1,926,426-
1,926,426
1,733,648
61,992
139,680
25,022
11,718
1,458,255
1,512,221
1,617,083
1,601,386
Total
1,343,557
1,439,465
1,762,849
1,616,422
1,412,171
1,451,774
1,631,260
1,675,246
1,431,693
1,459,171
1,556,601
1,620,546
County Treasurer
Kenneth Latta (D) .............................
Michael Stimpson (R) .....................
22,349
19,681
43,631
57,939
44,431
59,098
47,815
50,176
44,415
51,617
51,879
45,042
7,416
5,852
5,175
Circuit Court - 22nd District
Patrick Conlin .................................
Edward Deake ................................
District Court -15th District
Pieter Thomassen .............................
Probate Court
Richard Conlin ................................
Judith Wood ...................................
Supreme Court Justice - 4 year term
James Brickley ................................ 24,509 1,751,731
James Hathaway ...............................10,378 840,501
Court of Appeals -1st District
Harold Hood.......... ..... 18,696 --
Richard Maher ............................... 20,558 --
25,572
18,867
24,789
12,472
24,494
Drain Commissioner
James Murray (D)............................ 24,866
Dan Bicknell (R) .............................. 17,495
County Commissioner - District 6
Meri Lou Murray (D)......................... 7,265
County Commissioner - District 7
Ray Shoultz (D)............................ 4,416
Collene Conrad (R)....................... 3,847
58,096
44,132
24,789
33,860
47,957
Washtenaw Community College Trustee
James'Anderson .............................. 18,389 40,370
Richard Bailey ............................. 18,437 40,933
John Corey...............................14,961 33,454
James Lang ................................... 11,952 28,448
Marcia Harrison (vacancy).................... 22,033 52,001
Proposal A - Administrative rules
Yes...................................... 15,752 36,319
No....................................... 26,126 56,897
Proposal B - Natural Resources Fund
Yes ........................................... 33,427 70,278
No ............................................ 11,183 27,919
Proposal C - Voter's Choice
Yes .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,669 31,098
County Commissioner - District 8
Donald Duquette (D) .......................... 7,482 7,726
Richard Chesbrough (R) ....................... 5,077 5,532
County Commissioner - District 9
Catherine McClary (D) ........................ 6,731 6,731
Supreme Court Justice - 8 year term
Thomas Kavanagh ........:................... 14,376 1,083,781
Dorothy Riley ................................. 22,643 1,593,449
Supreme Court Justice -6 year term
No.................36,936
City Proposal 1 - Nuclear Free Zone
Y es ........................................... 16,298
N o ............................................ 30,100
County Proposal 1- Parks Millage
Yes .... ..... ............................ 29,736
No .......-.-.............................. 12,546
72,521
16,298
30,100
57,475
35,840
Patricia Boyle .................................
Robert Griffin .................................
25,273 1,464,705
12,151 1,246,711
Lousma blames
lack of funds
for election loss
By THOMAS HRACH
with wire leports
Exit polls declared Democrat Carl
Levin the clear winner in Michigan's
senate race when voting ended
Tuesday. But Republican challenger
Jack Lousma waited through the night
for returns from the city of Detroit
before he conceded the contest yester-
day morning.
The band of Lousma supporters who
gathered at the Ann Arbor Sheraton Inn
on election night saw their candidate
briefly. He made only two appearances
before the crowd. Lousma insisted that
he "will not concede anything on
guesswork" which is what he considers
the exit polling.
INSTEAD, Lousma decided to travel
to Dearborn to thank his supporters and
promised he would return to give the
Ann Arbor loyalists the final word on
his campaign. But early yesterday
morning Lousma decided to wait on the
hunch that his slim lead at the time
would hold up after the ballots from
Detroit had been counted.
Lousma called it quits yesterday at a
9 a.m. news conference in the hotel near
Briarwood.
"Me and the space shuttle had
trouble getting off the ground this mor-
ning," said Lousma, referring to the
space shuttle Discovery's aborted lift-
off yesterday. "But there will be
another day for the both of us," he said.
LEVIN, A freshman senator from
Detroit, had 1,924,484 or 53 percent, to
1,731,424 or 47 percent for Lousma, a
former astronaut.
Levin told a morning-after news con-
ference in Detroit that he was not sur-
prised by his performance due to
Reagan's strong showing in the state.
"I knew it would be a hard-fought
race if the President did well," he said.
"I always knew the polls were way off
- the exit polls were way off."
"HUNDREDS of thousands of people
had to split their ticket for me. That
shows people want Michigan to be
represented - they don't want a
senator that's in the President's
pocket," Levin said.
Lousma thanked his supporters and
family, and had few harsh words for his
opponent. The native Ann Arbor
resident refused to cite any errors on
the part of his campaign staff, instead
blaming the lack of funds for the failure
to get his message out to the voters of
Michigan.
"This was a .close race, and with
enough financial resources we would
have won it," Lousma said.
"I DIDN'T COME into this campaign
with an unlimited bankroll," Lousma
said. "The (Reagan) coattail effect
would have worked if we had had more
money."
According to the candidate his cam-
paign finished with a $10,000 to $20,000
debt. Lousma's financial difficulties
began when Levin raised $2.1 million
this year, compared with $1.3 million
for Lousma.
DURING THE campaign, Lousma
was stung by a Levin commercial that
included a film clip of him telling a
Japanese audience that he had a
Toyota.
Lousma yesterday commented one
last time on that television commercial.
"Certainly voters were mislead by
the false advertisement. It was a cheap
shot because it was my son's car," said
Lousma. "I was in the race the whole
way, but in the end finances were the
problem."
Lousma refused to speculate on what
his future plans would entail. He
neither confirmed nor denied he would
seek another office, most specifically
the governor's seat in 1986.
Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH
Boisterous Democratic supporters cheer for their heroes at Cottage Inn on Washtenaw while awaiting election results.
City voters relieved at Proposal C's defeat
By GREGORY HUTTON
with wire reports
University officials are breathing a sigh of relief af-
ter state Proposal C was defeated Tuesday by a
margin of 60-40 percent.
The proposal would have rolled back state taxes to
their Dec. 1981 levels and could have forced the
University to hike tuition as much as 21 percent.
ANN ARBOR voters rejected the proposal by the
wide margin of 36,936 to 9,669.
Keith Molin, assistant to the vice-president and
hirector of capital projects, said that the ad-
ministration was delighted with the outcome, and
that it was truly an expression of rejection for the
proposal.
"We are relieved at the defeat of Proposal C.. . had
it passed we would have had to do one of two things -
either reduce the curriculum of some schools or raise
tuition," said Molin.
Molin said that the other half of the Proposal which
requires four-fifths of the legislative vote for all fur-
ther tax increases, would lead to "anarchy". The
passage of Proposal C could have slashed as much as
$38 million from the $170 million of state support the
University receives this year, officials said.
"WE THINK (the defeat) is not only good for the
people of Michigan, but particularly the students of
the University," said Mark Williams, a spokesperson
for the Michigan Student Assembly. "We were a little
worried at the 17 percent undecided vote, but we ex-
pected the Proposal to go down," he said.
The University community was praised Tuesday
night by Promote Michigan, the coalition against the
passage of Proposal C, for helping to contribute funds
for the campaign drive. Promote Michigan raised a
total of $1 million toward its successful campaign.
"The help that the University gave us as far as
communicating to the alumni and community about
the confusing and chaotic nature of Proposal C was
wonderful," said Don Stypula, assistant financial
director of Promote Michigan. "We cannot thank the
University enough," he added.
Projections sway Oregon turnout
NEW YORK (AP) - A significant number of registered
voters in Oregon were discouraged from voting after hearing
television reports of Ronald Reagan's landslide victory, but
the network projections did not cause people already at the
polls to leave the lines, a researcher said yesterday.
Dr. William Adams, professor of administration at George
Washington University, called the impact on voter turnout
"less than trivial. In our survey, we definitely encountered a
number of people who said that projections had a decisive in-
fluence on their decision not to vote."
Rep. Tim Wirth (D-Colo.), chairman of the House
'telecommunications subcommittee that has been monitoring
the networks' election practices, said in his district "news of
the network projections spread like wildfire. Countless
voters left the lines..."
The networks, meanwhile, maintain that there is no con-
clusive evidence that projections affect turnout. "We don't
agree that there is a depression," said ABC News Vice
President David Burke.
Even so, ABC said it was sensitive to those concerns and
chose not to use its available exit-polling information to make
any election characterizations before the network deter-
mined that there were enough electoral votes from states
where the polls had closed to actually declare Reagan's vic-
tory.
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From United Press International
Michigan Republicans enjoyed a
"very good night" Tuesday which poin-
ts to the potential at least for a major
political realignment in the state, GOP
state House for next year, with
Republicans claiming a big victory and
saying their showing indicates a public
shifting rightward.
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