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Gingrich gets 40 percent of Greer vote; Romney, Santorum trail

Gingrich carried all 20 Greer precincts totaling 4,909 votes.

STAFF REPORTS
Published on Saturday, January 21, 2012

Newt Gingrich outdistanced Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to win the Greer precincts tonight in the South Carolina Republican Presidential candidate primary.

Gingrich carried all 20 Greer precincts totaling 4,909 votes or 40 percent of the 12,158 votes cast. With only absentee ballots to be counted, Mitt Romney had 3,160 (25.9 percent) and Rick Santorum 2,151 (17.6 percent).

Gingrich also carried the state and gave the Republicans three winners – Santorum in Iowa and Romney in New Hampshire – in three states. The primary heads to Florida Sunday.

Only 77,095 or 27.7 percent of Greenville County's 278,183 registered voters cast their ballots today.

Greer Precincts

Precinct

Michelle Bachman

Herman Cain

Newt Gingrich

Jon
Huntsman

Gary Johnson

Ron
Paul

Rick Perry

Mitt Romney

Rick Santorum

Boiling Springs

0

6

267

2

2

91

1

181

132

Brook Glenn

0

3

123

0

0

63

0

50

65

Canebrake

0

11

397

2

0

102

2

372

107

Castle Rock

0

5

242

2

0

112

5

104

148

Circle Creek

0

1

294

0

0

71

1

169

96

Devenger

0

14

308

0

0

82

0

245

130

Fox Chase

0

6

279

0

0

79

3

111

120

Frohawk

0

2

248

1

0

64

2

138

92

Granite Creek

0

4

220

4

1

77

2

156

83

Locust Hill

0

3

202

0

0

58

1

83

109

Maple Creek

1

1

140

0

0

87

0

63

77

Oneal

1

3

269

0

0

120

0

148

150

Riverside

1

5

206

0

0

100

0

98

97

Skyland

0

4

267

0

1

190

6

112

157

Silverleaf

1

10

262

3

1

86

1

218

112

Suber Mill

1

6

263

0

0

85

0

160

156

Sugar Creek

1

13

385

2

0

99

1

330

127

Thornblade

0

9

298

2

0

73

1

318

83

Trade

0

3

158

0

0

73

1

51

69

Tyger River

1

1

81

0

0

55

0

53

41

Absentee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

7

110

4909

18

5

1771

27

3160

2151

Pct. (%)

0.0

0.0

40.3

0.0

0.0

14.5

0.0

25.9

17.6

 

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