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Obama Wins Forest Park By Wide Margin

Obama wins all precincts in Forest Park.

Forest Park is still Obama country, according to local election results published Wednesday by the Cook County Clerk's Office.

See how Illinois voted overall here.

As in 2008, Barack Obama beat out his GOP challenger by a wide margin amoung voters in Forest Park. About 77 percent of registered voters in Forest Park cast a ballot in the election.

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On Nov. 6, Obama beat former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney 5,239 votes to 1,165 votes. If you're into percentages, that's 80 percent to 18 percent.

The Obama/Biden ticket won each of Forest Park's 11 precincts, as it did in 2008.

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See a breakdown of the votes by precinct here.

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, got 1 percent of the vote, and Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, came up less with than 1 percent of the vote.

 

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