Politics & Government

How Did Your Neighborhood Vote? Cedar Falls Caucus Results

3,642 people cast their ballots in Black Hawk County, which Ron Paul won by just 35 votes. Here are the results, by precinct, in Cedar Falls, as reported on iowagop.org.


Republicans from across Black Hawk County for Iowa's largest Caucus last night. Statewide, , just eight votes ahead of Rick Santorum.

Black Hawk County had a photo finish of it's own, with Ron Paul edging out Romney by 35 votes.

Michele Bachmann, who finished behind everyone but Jon Huntsman, . Waterloo, as Bachmann stated emphatically and repeatedly in visits to the area, is her hometown. But despite a last minute pitch to voters at the Dome just before the Caucus started, local voters had little love for the Minnesota Congresswoman.

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As reported on iowagop.org, 3,642 people cast their ballots in Black Hawk County. Paul got 870 votes, Romney 835, Santorum 783, Newt Gingrich 596, Bachmann 262, Rick Perry 259, Jon Huntsman 29, Buddy Roemer 4 and Herman Cain 1.

There were no "other" votes recorded for Black Hawk County on the website, which is run by the Republican Party of Iowa. Other counties did have "other" votes recorded.

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The "other" catergory was the vote of choice for Occupy Uncommitted activists, affiliated with Occupy Cedar Valley, who had attended the Caucus but wanted to demonstrate their displeasure with the candidates being presented.

Black Hawk County Republican Chair Mac McDonald said as far as he knew there were four "no preference" votes and one additional "other" vote, so five "other" votes should had been recorded. He said he could not account for the discrepency.

Iowa GOP headquarters did not immediately return calls for comment.

Occupy Cedar Valley and Occupy Uncommitted movement organizer Brandon Long said he was concerned about the possibility of vote suppression and that the group would look into the discrepency. He believed there were at least five Occupy Uncommitted members at the Black Hawk County Republican Caucus last night. Patch spoke with two people who said they voted uncommitted.

Want to know how your neighbors voted? Here are the precinct level results for Cedar Falls. Not sure which precinct is your neigborhood? Find out here. Want to know how other Black Hawk County precincts voted? See the full list here.

Ward 1, Precinct 1:

Paul: 23, Santorum: 15, Gingrich: 12, Bachmann: 9, Romney: 8, Perry: 1

Ward 1, Precinct 2:

Romney: 30, Paul: 19, Santorum: 14, Gingrich: 13, Bachmann: 8, Perry: 7

Ward 1, Precinct 3:

Paul: 29, Romney: 15, Gingrich: 15, Santorum: 7, Bachmann: 3, Perry: 3, Huntsman: 1

Ward 2, Precinct 1:

Paul: 37, Santorum: 27, Romeny: 16, Gingrich: 11, Bachmann: 11, Perry: 4, Hunstman: 3

Ward 2, Precinct 2:

Paul: 20, Santorum: 14, Romney: 12, Gingrich: 10, Perry: 4, Huntsman: 2, Bachmann: 1, Roemer: 1

Ward 2, Precinct 3:

Paul: 43, Santorum: 39, Romney: 32, Bachmann: 19, Gingrich: 19, Perry: 6, Huntsman: 1

Ward 3, Precinct 1:

Romney: 69, Santorum: 36, Gingrich: 34, Paul: 30, Bachmann: 6, Perry: 6, Hunstman: 3

Ward 3, Precinct 2 and Cedar Falls township:

Romney: 65, Santorum: 61, Paul: 30, Gingrich: 25, Perry: 15, Bachmann: 10, Huntsman: 4

Ward 3, Precinct 3:

Romney: 21, Gingrich: 19, Paul: 16, Santorum: 12, Perry: 5, Huntsman: 4, Bachmann: 1

Ward 4, Precinct 1:

Paul: 21, Romney: 11, Santorum: 10, Perry: 5, Gingrich: 1, Huntsman: 1, Roemer: 1

Ward 4, Precinct 2:

Paul: 20, Gingrich: 12, Romney: 7, Santorum: 4, Perry: 4, Bachmann: 1

Ward 4, Precinct 3:

Paul: 10, Gingrich: 4, Romney: 4, Huntsman: 3, Perry: 2, Bachmann: 1, Santorum: 1

Ward 5, Precinct 1:

Gingrich: 39, Romney: 34, Paul: 29, Santorum: 26, Bachmann: 9, Perry: 8

Ward 5: Precinct 2:

Romney: 14, Paul: 10, Gingrich: 9, Santorum: 9, Perry: 9, Bachmann: 2, Huntsman: 1

Ward 5, Precinct 3:

Paul: 27, Bachmann: 10, Gingrich: 21, Santorum: 39, Huntsman: 2, Romney 57, Perry: 16

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