Buyer, Roemer, Re-Elected
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Kosciusko County voters had their way in one congressional race and voted against the district in another.
The county electorate overwhelmingly voted for Republican challenger Dan Holtz, District 3, and Republican incumbent Steve Buyer, District 5.
In the third district, Holtz received 65 percent of the county vote (6,697), while Democratic incumbent Tim Roemer garnered only 35 percent (3,589). District-wide, however, Roemer won re-election by nearly 17 percentage points (58.2 percent to 41.8 percent), with votes totalling 84,260 for Roemer and 60,665 to Holtz.
In the fifth district race, Buyer received 72 percent of the votes cast in Kosciusko County (5,168) to Democratic challenger David Steele's 26 percent, (1,841). For the district as a whole, Buyer was returned to office by a near two-to-one margin, 101,141 to 58,032 (62.6 percent to 35.9 percent.) Libertarian candidate Carl D. Waters received 2,299 votes, or 1.5 percent of the total.
"I would describe the result as pretty much decisive as to what the voters of the fifth district want," Steele said today. "Right now, I really have no firm plans for the future, only to catch up on some sleep and return some normalcy to my family."
Candidates Holtz and Waters, as well as congressmen Roemer and Buyer, were unavailable for comment late Tuesday and today. [[In-content Ad]]
Kosciusko County voters had their way in one congressional race and voted against the district in another.
The county electorate overwhelmingly voted for Republican challenger Dan Holtz, District 3, and Republican incumbent Steve Buyer, District 5.
In the third district, Holtz received 65 percent of the county vote (6,697), while Democratic incumbent Tim Roemer garnered only 35 percent (3,589). District-wide, however, Roemer won re-election by nearly 17 percentage points (58.2 percent to 41.8 percent), with votes totalling 84,260 for Roemer and 60,665 to Holtz.
In the fifth district race, Buyer received 72 percent of the votes cast in Kosciusko County (5,168) to Democratic challenger David Steele's 26 percent, (1,841). For the district as a whole, Buyer was returned to office by a near two-to-one margin, 101,141 to 58,032 (62.6 percent to 35.9 percent.) Libertarian candidate Carl D. Waters received 2,299 votes, or 1.5 percent of the total.
"I would describe the result as pretty much decisive as to what the voters of the fifth district want," Steele said today. "Right now, I really have no firm plans for the future, only to catch up on some sleep and return some normalcy to my family."
Candidates Holtz and Waters, as well as congressmen Roemer and Buyer, were unavailable for comment late Tuesday and today. [[In-content Ad]]