U-46 building bond referendum passes with large majority

School District U-46’s referendum asking voters to approve selling $179 million in school building bonds has passed, according to the unofficial vote tally from Tuesday’s election.

The total vote count was 10,504 votes in favor to 6,346 against, not including mail-in and provisional ballots not yet counted.

It broke down like this: In Kane County, with all 53 precincts reporting, the measure had 5,033 yes votes and 2,485 nay votes. In Cook County, the measure had 3,475 votes in favor and 1,814 no votes, with all 43 precincts reporting. In DuPage County, with 98.9% of election day ballots counted, the nay votes tallied 2,047 and the yes votes 2,014.