The unoffical election results are in: Matthew Gibb will be the next Orion Township Supervisor.
Gibb received 9,986 votes; his Democratic opponent David Hodges got 6,992 votes.
The rest of the township’s elections were decided in the August primaries. The next Board of Trustees will be Mark Crane, Neal Porter, John Steimel and JoAnn Van Tassel. Alice Young will stay on as Treasurer. Penny Shults will be the new clerk. All are Republicans and ran unopposed on Tuesday.
They will be inaugurated at the Orion Township Hall at noon on Nov. 20.
Orion went mainly Republican in races on the county, state and federal levels, too.
A summary report for how Orion voted follows:

Registered voters: 24,590
Ballots cast: 19,037
Voter turnout: 77 percent

Straight party ticket:
Republican Party: 4,478
60 percent
Democratic Party: 2,821
2,821

Presidential election:
John McCain (R): 10,041
53 percent
Barack Obama (D): 8,512
45 percent

United States Senator:
Carl Levin (D): 9,065
50 percent
Jack Hoogendyk, Jr. (R): 8,420
46 percent

Represenative in 8th Congressional District:
Mike Rogers (R): 8,429
64 percent
Robert Alexander (D): 4,202
32 percent

Represenative in 9th Congressional District:
Joe Knollenberg (R): 2,267
48 percent
Gary Peters (D): 2,095
44 percent

Representative in state legislature 46th district:
James Marleau (R): 10,950
63 percent
Katherine Houston (D): 6,359
36 percent

Oakland County Executive:
L. Brooks Patterson (R): 12,867
71 percent
Brenda Larence (D) 5,181
29 percent