Orange County voters largely followed the state trend with Democrats backing Hillary Clinton and Republicans going for John McCain, while voters in San Clemente rejected a plan to build homes on a golf course.
Clinton won 55% of the local vote, slightly better than her 52% statewide tally. Barack Obama won 38%, down from 42% for all of California.
McCain took 40% of the OC vote, versus 42% statewide, while Mitt Romney did better here with 37%, up from 33% statewide.
California voters approved four Indian gambling pacts and rejected three other propositions on community colleges, transportation spending and term limits.
In San Clemente, voters nixed a city-approved plan to build 224 homes on nine holes of the 27-hole Pacific Golf Club.
The measure was soundly rejected, 68.5% to 31.5%.
In Newport Beach, voters appear to have narrowly OK’d a new City Hall next to the city’s the Central Library.
The plan shifts city headquarters from the Balboa Peninsula to open space along Avocado Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard.
