SUNBURY - Only 19 percent of registered Democrats and Republicans in Northumberland County voted in Tuesday's primary.
The low voter turnout was expected in an election with mostly municipal races, noted Alisha Herb, director of the board of elections office.
Of 53,700 registered voters, only 9,990 cast votes, she said.
Shamokin and Sunbury were lower than normal. The places with the highest turnout were in the Milton area, which Herb attributed to a magisterial district judge race there.
The day went smoothly, but Herb said there were minor issues with registered independents calling to ask why they were not on the list of voters.
There were also only four minor issues at the polling stations, three of those issues in the Shamokin area. Two candidate signs had to be moved a few feet away from the entrances to the polling stations at Liberty Fire Company and Trinity Evangelical Church in Shamokin. Also, someone campaigning for Shamokin Area School Board outside the polling station at Shamokin Area Middle/High School was asked to move away from the entrance.
A local Sunbury council candidate was asked to stand back from the entrance to a polling station at Sunbury Community Hospital.
All those asked to move did so without incident, and there were no other issues about which Herb was informed.
"With 94 precincts, we did excellent," she said.
Herb said an official count will be conducted Friday.