Challenger easily captures D.C. mayoral vote
As of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics was reporting Gray had picked up 18,000 votes, or about 78 percent of the ballots cast. About 4,570 write-in votes in the mayor’s race had been counted, although there was no way to know if Fenty collected all of those.
Following his loss to Gray in the September Democratic primary, Fenty had pledged his support for the council chairman in the general election. But Fenty made no move to stop the write-in effort. Gray had to call out Fenty on his recalcitrance before the lame-duck mayor turned his back on the write-in campaign.
About 16,000 voters had cast ballots in favor of a referendum to elect the attorney general; 4,683 had voted against it.
