When all was said and done, and all the votes were cast in the 2018 Connecticut Primary elections, qualified Newtown voters appeared to almost exclusively back party endorsed candidates on both the Democratic and Republican sides of the ticket.In the Governor's race:Bob Stefanowski; 826 votes for Mark D. Boughton; 241 votes for David Stemerman; 209 votes for Tim Herbst; and 111 votes for Steve Obsitnik.In the Lt Governor's race:Joe Markley; 365 votes for Erin Stewart; and 291 votes for Jayme Stevenson.In the US Senate race: local Republicans cast 1,267 votes for Matthew Corey; and 338 votes for Dominic Rapini.In the 5th US Congressional race:Manny Santos; 449 votes for Ruby Corby-O'Neill; and 266 votes for Rich DuPont.In the State Treasurer's race:Shawn Wooden received 801 votes to challenger Dita Bhargava, who received 870 votes.Thad Gray; and 596 votes for Art Linares.In the race for Attorney General:Chris Mattei, and 185 for Paul Doyle.Sue Hatfield; and 305 votes for John Shaban.In the State Comptroller's Republican primary:The Newtown Bee for official totals.

That was the unfortunate case for Newtown Democrat Eva Bermudez Zimmerman, who rallied 40 percent of the delegates to automatically qualify to be on the primary ballot as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Ms Zimmerman was defeated by former Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, who had captured more than 60 percent of the votes with more than half of state districts reporting.

According to Democratic Registrar of Voters LeReine Frampton, local turnout was unexpectedly high with 34.8 percent of qualified voters turning out to one of three local polling locations or casting one of the 218 absentee ballots cast ahead of Primary Day - 113 Democrat and 105 Republican..

Unofficial totals provided by Republican Registrar Carey Shierloh showed 1,766 local Republicans cast ballots, representing about 33 percent of the 5,332 registered GOP voters, while 1,732 Democrats, or 36 percent of the 4,711 eligible voters cast ballots.

By 8:30 pm, state media outlets were already reporting Democratic gubernatorial contender Ned Lamont, who won the party's convention nomination, had soundly defeated challenger and Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim.

And just over an hour later, Waterbury's National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes, a Wolcott resident, was declared the Democratic winner for the 5th US Congressional District, defeating former Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman.

Ms Hayes will face Manny Santos, the former Republican mayor of Meriden in November.

The unofficial vote totals for Newtown are as follows.

Democrat Ned Lamont received 1,489 votes to challenger Joe Ganim's 213.

Local Republicans cast 413 votes for 

Mr Stefanowski was the declared GOP winner statewide.

Democrat Susan Bysiewicz received 883 votes to challenger Ms Zimmerman's 836.

Ms Bysiewicz was the declared Democratic winner statewide.

Local Republicans cast 1,033 votes for 

Mr Markley was the declared GOP winner statewide.

Mr Corey was the declared GOP winner statewide.

Democrat Jahana Hayes received 1,062 votes to endorsed candidate Mary Glassman's 654.

Local Republicans cast 905 votes for 

Democrat 

Mr Wooden was the declared Democratic winner statewide.

Local Republicans cast 1,024 votes for 

Mr Gray was the declared GOP winner statewide.

Democrat William Tong received 1,093 votes to 414 for 

Mr Tong was the declared Democratic winner statewide.

Local Republicans cast 1,328 votes for 

Ms Hatfield was the declared GOP winner statewide.

Kurt Miller received 902 votes to 722 cast for challenger Mark Greenberg.

All vote totals are unofficial until they are certified by the Town Clerk. Check back here, or the August 17 print edition of