The Nation - News from Oct. 2, 1985
Incumbent Cleveland Mayor George V. Voinovich swept to an easy primary election victory over three challengers who had sought to deny the low-key Republican a third term. With 99% of the votes counted, Voinovich, 48, had 32,972 votes, or 63.4%, while City Councilman Gary Kucinich had 13,346 votes, or 25.6%, James W. Barrett had 5,048 votes, or 9.7%, and Henry Scheer had 577 votes, or 1.1%. Voinovich and Kucinich will meet in the general election Nov. 5. Kucinich and Barrett are Democrats, while Scheer is a member of the Socialist Workers Party. The turnout among the city’s 311,018 registered voters was “extremely low,” averaging about 6% by noon, said Cuyahoga County Board of Elections spokeswoman Laura Jones.
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