Voter Turnout Reached 28% in Whitefish Bay

State officials expected the the turnout in Tuesday's primary election to be about 10 percent,  but in Whitefish Bay, 28 percent of registered voters showed up to narrow the field of candidates in the races for state Supreme Court justice, county executive and circuit court judge.

State Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale, and philanthropist Chris Abele advanced out of the primary race for county executive, with former state Sen. Jim Sullivan, County Board Chairman Lee Holloway and community activist Ieshuh Griffin left behind.

Whitefish Bay voters kept with the countywide trend, preferring Stone, with 1,286 votes, and Abele, with 799 votes. Sullivan received 595 votes, Holloway received 29 votes and Griffin received nine votes.

Incumbent Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Pedro Colon and Glendale Municipal Court Judge Christopher Lipscomb advanced in the judicial primary, but Bay voters overwhelmingly supported the hometown candidate, Assistant Attorney General Roy Korte. He received 1,035 votes, as opposed to 571 for Lipscomb and 626 for Colon.

State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg advanced out of the four-way judicial race, beating out Marla Stephens and Joel Winnig.

In Whitefish Bay, Prosser received 1,494 votes, Kloppenburg received 565, Stephens received 313 and Winnig received 165 votes.

The top two vote-getters in each race will square off in the April 5 general election.