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RESULTS: June 5, 2012 Primary Election

These are the unofficial final results of Tuesday's election with all precincts reporting. Updates are expected today and Friday.

Editor's Note: Patch will update results from the June 5, 2012 Primary Presidential Election as polling stations report numbers to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters' Office. Results could change as provisional ballots continue to come in. Numbers have been updated as of June 9 at 12:01 p.m.

From a presidential primary to local bond measures totaling $513 million; Tuesday's primary election has far reaching implications for local communities, the county, state and nation.

Patch is tracking results for Santa Clara County and will update the chart below as soon as results become available.

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Here are the results:

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874 of 874 precincts (100%) reporting (i= incumbents)
Votes % Santa Clara County Supervisor: District 2 George Shirakawa (i)  24,010 100.00 Santa Clara County Supervisor: District 3

Dave Cortese (i)

39,263 100.00

Santa Clara County Supervisor: District 5

Democratic state Sen. Joe Simitian 38,345 58.29 Kris Huyilan Wang 15,058 22.89 Barry Chang 12,381 18.82    

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge: Seat 5

Paul Colin 122,094 55.31 Christopher E. "Chris" Cobey  62,561 28.34 Alexis Cerul 36,078 16.34

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge: Seat 7

Cynthia A. Sevely 164,226 74.51 Steven R. "Steve" Pogue  56,182 25.49 Congressional District 17 Mike Honda (i)
453,032 66.40 Evelyn Li 22,174 27.80 Charles Richardson 4,622 5.80

Congressional District 18

Anna S. Eshoo (i)

77,999 61.40 Dave Chapman 37,991 29.90 Williams Parks 5,900 4.60 Carol Brouillet 5,146 4.10

Congressional District 19

Zoe Lofgren 57,131 65.30 Robert Murray
20,123
23.00 Phat Nguyen 6,731
7.70 Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera 3,508
4.00

Congressional District 20



Sam Farr  56,026
63.90

Jeff Taylor

20,126 23.00 Mike Lebarre  4,459 5.10 Art Dunn
3,325
3.80 Eric Peterson
1,729 2.00 Ronald Paul Kabat
1,418
1.60 Dan Caudle 558
0.60

State Assembly District 24

Richard S. Gordon (i)
38,355 56.90 Chengzhi "George" Yang 19,214 28.50 Geby E. Espinosa 6,982 10.40 Joseph Antonelli Rosas 2,856 4.20 State Assembly District 25 Bob Wieckowski (i)
19,544 42.20 ArLyne Diamond 14,081
30.40 Peter "Primo" Mchugh 12,731 27.50 State Assembly District 27 Nora Campos (i)
32,106 70.50 Roger F. Lasson 13,441 29.50

State Assembly District 28

Paul Fong (i)
41,207 54.40 Chad Walsh 34,547 45.60 State Assembly District 29 Mark Stone 42,541 53.50 Tom Walsh 26,247 33.00 Bob Fultz 10,711
13.50

State Assembly District 30

Luis Alejo (i)

24,570 58.20 Rob Beronsky  17,626 41.80

State Senate District 13

Jerry Hill
67,672 51.00 Sally J. Lieber 30,000 22.60 John H. Webster 20,560 15.50 Christopher Kent Chiang 14,577 11.00

State Senate District 15

Jim Beall 64,864 55.60 Joe Coto 51,837 44.40

State Senate District 17

Bill Monning 95,776 58.20 Larry Beaman
68,648 41.80 U.S. Senate Diane Feinstein (i) 151,871
59.96 Elizabeth Emken 22,445
8.86 Dan Hughes 9,904
3.91 Democratic U.S. President Barack Obama (i) 129,804 100.00   Republican U.S. President Mitt Romney 54,295 73.47 Ron Paul 10,460 14.15 Rick Santorum 4,651 6.29 Newt Gingrich 3,085 4.17 Charles E. "Buddy" Roemer, III 808 1.09 Fred Karger 600 0.81 LOCAL MEASURES Measure A: Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Flexibility in Control of County Jails to Ensure Cost-saving and Improvements of Efficiencies (Majority vote to pass) Yes 194,191 77.68 No 55,791 22.32 Measure C: Update of facilities and technologies at West Valley and Mission Colleges (55 percent vote required to pass) Yes  40,629 59.78 No 27,340 40.22 Measure E: Bond, Milpitas Unified School District, $95 million (55 percent vote required to pass)
Yes 5,264
64.10 No 2,948 35.90 Measure G: Bond, Mountain View Whisman School District, $198 million (55 percent vote required to pass)
Yes 7,122 67.53 No 3,424 32.47

Measure H: Cupertino Unified School District Bonds, $220 million (55 percent vote required to pass)

Yes 17,163 66.16 No 8,778 33.84 STATE PROPOSITION Proposition 28: Reduces the amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 to 12 years. (Majority vote to pass) Yes 179,922 66.72 No 89,727 33.28 Proposition 29: Imposes an additional tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products. (Majority vote to pass) Yes 181,853 65.56 No 95,548 34.44 Source: Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters *For information about statewide races, please visit the California Secretary of State
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