By Mike Kaszuba
The State Canvassing Board on Tuesday certified the results of last week's state primary, confirming that the turnout was the highest in over a decade.
In the final voting results, the canvassing board said that 606,394 Minnesotans voted last Tuesday, which translated to 15.93 percent of eligible voters. In addition, the board added, voters in last week's primary cast a record 31,276 absentee ballots.
The closely-watched DFL gubernatorial primary yielded these final results: Mark Dayton, 182,738 votes, or 41.33 percent; Margaret Anderson Kelliher, 175,767 votes or 39.75 percent and Matt Entenza, 80,509 votes, or 18.21 percent.
