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Coleman wins
GOP primary
in close race
By MARY K. BLEWITT
and LOU HATTER
Arundel Newspapers Staff Writers
Rappahannock County joined the rest of Virginia in electing J. Marshall Coleman as the Republican gubernatorial candidate to challenge the Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder in November.
Voters will apparently have a clear choice of philosophies in the genef-al election on Nov. 7, since Mr. Coleman unabashedly courted the most conservative wing of the state GOP on the way to his upset victory of former Sen. Paul S. Trible.
Statewide, Sen. Trible lost to Mr. Coleman by two percentage points, 35 to 37 percent. The victory was the comeback story of the year, since early polls last year showed .Mr. Coleman trailing the well-knowrn former Senator by as much as 40 percentage points.
In Rappahannock County, Mr. Trible finished a distant third to both Mr. Coleman and Congressman Stanford Parris. With only 13 percent of the county’s 3,200 eligible voters casting ballots, the returns took Registrar Ruth Kilby only 45 minutes to compile.
Mr. Coleman received a total of 167 votes, 38 percent of the ballots cast. He was trailed by Rep. Parris, who polled 34 percent (147 votes). Mr. Trible failed to win at any of the county’s six precincts, finishing with 117 votes, or 27 percent of the total.
Voter turnout in the county was low, as it was across the state. Less than 15 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots Tuesday in the first Republican gubernatorial primary in 40 years. Apparently, the largely negative and expensive media campaign failed to excite voters in the Commonwealth.
See COLEMAN, p. 18
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