Tuesday’s Wyoming Election Was Largest Primary Turnout in State History Wendell Husebø17 Aug 202254
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Tuesday’s Wyoming election was the largest primary turnout in the state’s history, according to the Wyoming Election Division.
The massive turnout fueled Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) ouster from Congress. Trump-endorsed candidate Harriet Hageman crushed Cheney by 37 percent with 95 percent reporting.
Voters seemed to be energized by Cheney’s feud with former President Donald Trump, causing them to show up to the polls in record numbers.
According to the state’s data, a total 182,142 of voters turned out to vote in Tuesday’s primary, with 171,964 Republican votes, 8,194 Democrat votes, and 1,984 nonpartisan votes.
In the 2020 primary, only 140,042 voters showed up to the polls. The number was similar in 2018 with 139,809. In the 2016 election cycle, when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) first won her Wyoming seat, only 114,437 residents voted in the primary.
The lowest turnout on record since 1978 was in 2008 when just 108,238 voters were cast in the primary.
The data comes as Cheney was the eighth out of ten pro-impeachment House Republicans to exit Congress. The 2021 House impeachment vote of Trump was one of the most career-wrecking show of hands in congressional history.
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