Tuesday, voters in Kosciusko County turned out in larger numbers than the last midterm primary elections.
In 2006, 20.47 percent of registered voters in Kosciusko County hit the polls.
In this year's primary, 10,899 voters, or 23.81 percent, of Kosciusko County voters cast their ballots.
There are 45,771 registered voters in the 65 precincts of Kosciusko County.
There were 596 absentee ballots cast in Tuesday's primary.
The race with the highest vote total was the U.S. Representative District 3 republican race with 9,899. Incumbent Mark Souder won Kosciusko County and the primary.
In Kosciusko County, Souder received 4,775 votes (48.24 percent of the votes) to Bob Thomas' 3,417 (34.52 percent).
For the democrats, the highest vote total came from the U.S. district 3 primary as well. Of 725 votes, Thomas Hayhurst earned 458 to Thomas Allen Schrader's 267.
