With the primary officially over, all eyes are now set on the November general election.

Your KUAM News team was up through Saturday night as results started coming amid low voter turnout. Here’s more as we are just about 90 days until the final race.

“Yes, it was low voter turnout but the thing to also remember is that our voter registry has gone up to over 60,000,” said Guam Election Commission Executive Director Maria Pangelinan. 

18,700 voters showed up to the polls. 13,100 thousand democrats and 4,800 republicans. 

Overall, 31.16% of voters showed up.

“We try our best. Let us know how else to entice the voter to come in. Early voting is very efficient,” said Pangelinan. 

Precinct officials from Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon noticed the low turnout. They left the University of Guam Election Central around 9 p.m., just an hour after the polls closed.

“But the only problem was that there were hardly any voters…Our precinct, the turnout of it was really poor,” said Precinct Official Virginia Mendiola. 

The GEC plans to certify the primary results at their Aug. 16 public meeting.

Democrat Ginger Cruz secured the top spot in the three-way party primary. 

KUAM’s Destiny Cruz was there when Senator Amanda Shelton, who came in second, called Cruz.

“I really would love to go to lunch and share some ideas and here what your thoughts are,” said Cruz.

KUAM’s Matsuki Hirayama spoke exclusively with Senator Shelton as the primary night ended.

“I am disappointed but the trend is showing us that Ginger is the victor tonight. We fought a very hard fight. We are very proud of the campaign that we carried out in the last several months.

KUAM has reached out to former Del. Michael San Nicolas for comment. Now leading the party’s ticket, Cruz said she looks forward to the general battle,” said Shelton.

“Well, there is a lot more hard work to do. I mean the fact that there were three democratic candidates running against an incumbent I think was a clear signal to the people of Guam that we can do better,” said Cruz. 

KUAM scheduled an in-person interview with incumbent Del. James Moylan, but his team said an emergency came up and asked to re-schedule. 

Moylan garnered just under 4,000 votes as he is unopposed in the Republican Party. 

He said in a statement: “I would like to thank the people of Guam for not only coming out and expressing their civic right to vote, but for also providing me the opportunity to advance to the General Election.”

Tune in later as we’ll have more coverage on The Hub this Wednesday.