Romney Wins Majority in Fairfield, State

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney swept Tuesday’s primaries in five states, including Connecticut, according to an Associated Press report in the Connecticut Post.

Romney seized the majority of the vote in Fairfield, where voter turnout was low. Just 11.7 percent of the town’s nearly 10,500 registered Republican voters exercised their right to vote on Tuesday, according to the Fairfield Registrar’s office.

Perhaps that’s because, , the Connecticut primary comes late in the game; the race for the nomination is barely a contest by late April.

Of the 1,224 votes cast, Romney snagged 919 of them, or 75 percent. Texas congressman Ron Paul came in second with 127 votes, just 19 votes more than former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s 108.  

Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, who suspended his campaign earlier this month, received 46 votes in Fairfield. Twenty-four voters cast “uncommitted” ballots.