Calvo and Tenorio beat their opponents Lt. Gov. Mike Cruz and Sen. Jim Espaldon by 2,763 votes in the Republican primary.
The Calvo/Tenorio team garnered 9,221 votes while Cruz/Espaldon received only 6,458.
Gutierrez/Aguon, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, received 8,140 votes.
Incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, the lone candidate in her party’s primary, received 7,663 votes.
In the legislative race, there were 19 candidates for each party. Only 15 were needed from each slate to be on the November ballot.
The winners in the Democratic primary were Speaker Judy Won Pat, Sen. Tina Muna-Barnes, Sen. Rory Respicio, Sen. Tom Ada, Corinna Gutierrez-Ludwig, Vice Speaker B.J. Cruz, Sen. Ben Pangelinan, Dennis Rodriguez Jr., Sen. Adolpho Palacios, Joe S. San Agustin, Sarah Thomas-Nededog, Steve Dierking, Trini Torres and Jonathan Diaz.
Those who didn’t make it were Phillipe Cruz, Jonathan Carriaga, Tomas Fejeran, and Robert “Rumbo” Benavente.
Winning spots on the Republican ticket were Sen. Tony Ada, Sen. Frank Blas Jr., Dr. Aline Yamashita, Mana Silva Taijeron, Chris Duenas, Sen. Telo Taitagu, Douglas Moylan, Ray Haddock, Sam Mabini, Stephen Guerrero, Vic Gaza, John B. Benavente, William Taitague, William Sarmiento and Dr. Velma Harper.
Dennis Borja, Paul Reyes, Margarita Taitano and Armando Dominguez didn’t make it.
In the attorney general’s race, former U.S. Attorney Lenny Rapadas received 15,121 votes; Gary Gumataotao got 8,913; and Assistant Attorney General William Bischoff garnered 3,124.
The top two, Rapadas and Gumataotao, will be the AG candidates in November.
The unofficial results were completed in the early morning hours yesterday. They will be certified on Tuesday at 4 p.m. by the Guam Election Commission board.
Low turnout
A surprising low voter turnout was seen all over the island on Saturday at the 58 precincts.
Of the 50,033 registered voters, only 29,135 cast their ballots for a turnout of 58.23 percent.
Guam Election Commission Executive Director John Blas said the turnout was not what he expected.
“I was quite shocked because in the last couple of weeks of voter registration, the offices of the mayors were very active, very aggressive. We actually had to go out to those offices to provide them additional sets of voter registration so I was kind of disturbed by [the low turnout.] I was really surprised it was actually that low,” he said.
There were also a high number of spoiled/crossover ballots totaling 4,150 or 14.25 percent.
“That for me is really really high. With our education information to our voters, our press releases that stressed no crossing over and voting for one party only, as well as those specific instructions being on the ballot itself, I find it very amazing that we have that high number of crossovers,” he said.
On Saturday night at election central at the University of Guam Fieldhouse, unofficial results started to come in at around 11:05 p.m.
Officials expected to have everything completed by about 2 a.m., but there were problems discovered with Precinct 18L in Dededo. The polling site was held at the Astumbo Dededo Gymnasium.
Because of the delay, the final unofficial results didn’t come out until around 4:30 a.m.
Blas explained that there was only one precinct official who showed up on time before the polls opened at 7 a.m.
“Each precinct has a five-member team that works at that precinct and one precinct official showed up and I believe he was the lone precinct official for at least a couple of hours,” he said.
Other precinct officials at the same polling site decided to assist him with the inventory of the ballots and the voter registry listing before the precinct opened.
The situation ended in with a ballot miscount.
Said Blas, “You have different people counting. Different people make notation of the number of ballots and supplies that are there. At some point ,because there is no accurate track on what is counted and what is noted, you’re going to lose track of what you actually have; so that was the case with this particular precinct. It turned out to be an inaccurate count. That’s why it took them awhile to reconcile the difference. Their numbers were off by two.”
Blas said the final resolution was for the precinct officials to agree to a written statement explaining the situation and have it signed by all the precinct officials.
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