Republicans Sweep Windham in Massive Turnout

While New Hampshire swung in favor of the Democrats in Tuesday's election, the town of Windham voted Republican straight down the ticket.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney grabbed the highest number of votes in town – 5,224 in all. While President Obama won the state, he was crushed in Windham, seizing just 2,964 votes.

A massive turnout took place at the Windham High School polling center, with 8,337 total ballots cast, good for 81.8 percent of registered voters in town.

Of that total, 734 new voters registered at the polls and about 900 absentee ballots were cast.

Ovide Lamontagne was defeated in the gubernatorial race convincingly, but he beat his Democratic opponent Maggie Hassan in Windham 4,664 to 3,160.

The four GOP incumbents vying for Windham's four state representative positions staved off four Democratic challengers.

Leading in votes was longtime Rep. Mary Griffin with 4,963. She was followed by Charles McMahon (4,459), Kevin Waterhouse (4,232), and Walter Kolodziej (3,815).

Democrat Carolyn Webber received 3,073 votes, Kristi St. Laurent 2,972 votes, Neil Fallon 1,971 and Tony Keevan 1,778.

Jim Rausch retained his District 19 state senate seat, more than doubling his Democratic opponent Chris Reisdorf in Windham, 4,855 to 2,394.

Rausch swept the three towns his district covers, also taking Hampstead (3,016 to 1,663) and Derry (8,023 to 6,398).

District 2 Congressional candidate Ann McLane Kuster lost the Windham vote once again to incumbent Charles Bass, 4,807 to 2,721.

But the Windham loss didn't matter for Kuster, who ousted Bass to grab the seat.

Running for re-election for Executive Council, District 3 incumbent Christopher Sununu beat Democrat Bill Duncan 4,976 to 2,236.

Windham overwhelmingly voted to support ballot question no. 1 and no 2., while voting against no. 3.

Few issues with Voter ID cropped up at the polls, as most came prepared according to Town Moderator Peter Griffin.

The results in Windham were quite delayed. Numbers were released after 10:30 p.m.

The cause for the long wait involved the absentee ballots, new voter registrations and military ballots.