From left to right, even in the cold and snow, residents Donna Mazialnik, Eric Niehaus and Lee DeNike proudly held up signs for Brown Tuesday afternoon.

Story and photos by Livi Stanford

    Car horns blazed Tuesday morning for those holding signs for State Sen. Scott Brown in Lunenburg, as voters headed to the polls in what will be remembered as an historic upset in which a Republican won a Senate seat not held by the party since 1972.

    Winning the race by 109,425 votes and 5 percentage points statewide, Brown excited many voters in Lunenburg and will fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. He won 1,168,107 of the votes statewide compared to 1,058,682 for Attorney General Martha Coakley, while Independent candidate Joe Kennedy won 22,237 of the votes.

    Town Clerk Kathryn Herrick reported Tuesday night that 2,890 Lunenburg residents voted for Brown and 1,530 for Coakley, while 43 votes went for Kennedy.

    Herrick said that voter turnout was quite high for a special election.

    “This was a good turnout,” she said.

    All results from the four precincts showed that Brown held a strong lead in Lunenburg: In Precinct A, he won 802 votes compared to 377 for Coakley; In Precinct B, he won 610 votes and Coakely won 421; In Precinct C, he won 756 votes compared to 366 votes; and in Precinct D he won 722 votes while Coakley received 366 votes.

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