Manassas Gives Over 50 Percent of Vote to Romney

Voters in Manassas City came out to cast their votes for Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in the Virginia Republican presidential primary on Tuesday.

Of the city residents who voted in the Super Tuesday primary, 54 percent cast their votes for frontrunner Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, leaving candidate Ron Paul with 46 percent of the vote.

, voter turnout in Manassas was ultimately about 5.7 percent, or 1,185 of 20,665 total voters, according to Virginia State Board of Elections figures.

The Associated Press named Mitt Romney the winner of Tuesday’s Virginia primary nearly a half-hour after the polls closed at 7 p.m. The former Massachusetts governor trumped Ron Paul in the Virginia State Board of Elections unofficial tallies 59.4 percent to 40.6 percent – nearly five percent of total voters in the state.

Falling in line with statewide results, Prince William County voted for Romney, he took 60.8 percent of the vote in the county to Paul’s 39.2 percent.

Unofficial results from the Virginia State Board of Elections showed that out of the 5,155,342 total voters in the state 264,875 turned out in Tuesday's primary.

The small turnout of voters across the state was echoed in Prince William County. Countywide there are 237,729 registered voters according to the Virginia SBE; of that number 4.7 percent, or 11,320 voters, turned out to vote in the county.