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RAPPAHANNOCK VOTERS reversed area and state trends and took their county into the camp of the winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. Unofficial returns show Rappahannock supporting Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter over incumbent President Gerald R Ford, 1,071 votes to 881. Culpeper, Fauquier and Loudoun counties, as well as the state as a whole, went narrowly for Ford. In the fight for Virginia’s United States Senate seat, incumbent Harry F. Byrd, Jr. topped his closest opponent by a two to one margin in the county and won re-election as the Senate’s only Independent. Unofficial results show Byrd with 1,264 votes to 608 for Democrat Bud Zumwalt, and 118 for Republican Martin Perper. The race for the Seventh District Congressional seat was apparently won by Republican incumbent J. Kenneth Robinson with a substantial victory margin over Independent James Hutt. In Rappahannock, it was Robinson 1,217 and Hutt 356.
Rappahannock voters followed the statewide trend and supported five out of the six proposed state Constitutional amendments. Only amendment four, which would have allowed government employes and office holders to serve as assistant registrars, failed to win approval.
VOTER TURNOUT was heavier than in past elections with 76
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