Crawford Shows Lead in Michigan House Race
Although both candidates ran uncontested for their parties in the primary, Hugh Crawford shows a lead over Chuck Tindall for November.
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to show how each candidate did along party lines. View the corrected version here.
Republican candidate Hugh Crawford was favored by voters in the primary election Tuesday to represent the 38th District in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Crawford, the incumbent, is running against Democratic candidate Chuck Tindall in the November election. Both men ran uncontested in the primary election Tuesday, but Crawford got more votes.
Unofficial results from the Oakland County Clerk show that Crawford got 7,026 votes to Tindall's 3,616 with all precincts reporting.
The winner of the seat to represent Novi and part of Northville for a two-year term will be decided on Nov. 6.
Correction: A line was removed about Crawford receiving 66 percent of the votes because voters were only allowed to vote for one party.
Herb Helzer
6:02 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
What I posted for the Oakland County Commission race "story" is just as valid here.
1. More voters chose the Republican line because of the high-profile, more competitive primary races -- Hoekstra vs. Durant for U.S. Senate, and Bentivolio vs. Cassis for the 11th Congressional District races.
2. Comparing the actual tallies for Hugh Crawford vs. Chuck Tindall compared to the TOTAL number of votes cast is a better measure. Again, using my own precinct (Northville City #2) as an example:
Crawford (R): 402/509 = 78.98%
Tindall (D): 224/265 = 84.53%
Again, hugh Crawford is the incumbent, with name recognition in his favor -- yet is this instance, more than 1 in 5 Republican voters didn't care enough to vote for him. That gives Tindall room to maneuver, since it appears he has more of the Democratic base already, and his name recognition has nowhere to go but up.
Rebecca Jaskot
1:17 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Hi, Herb. Thanks again for pointing this out. I'm working on a corrected story right now.
Rebecca Jaskot
2:30 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Here's a breakdown of how many votes each candidate received compared to the total votes cast for each party: http://novi.patch.com/articles/primary-election-results-michigan-house-of-representatives