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IBy KEVIN iJVNDRIGANTelegraph StaffnCONCORD — Gov.-elect JeanneShaheen barely missed yet another historic milestone with the officialftIIresults of Tuesday’s election — the largest vote total ever obtained by a candidate for governor.But the first woman elected chieflexecutive in state history and first new Democrat to prevail in 16 years did pick up more historical footnotes along the way — the mostIItvotes ever won by a Democrat for governor and the first of her party this century to win in rock-ribbed Carroll County, one of the most Republican in the nation.She also received more total votesftthan Democratic President BillClinton, who made history of his own by winning twice in New Hampshire for the first time since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Meanwhile, Secretary of State BillGardner said the official turnoutwill not be available until today, butit will be well below the forecast of553,000 or 74.2 percent of thoseregistered to vote.Indeed, Gardner said the totalwho voted for president this week,494,473, marked the first time in seven elections — since l%4— sincethat fewer came to the polls than had in the previous election.There isn't any question the total numbers who voted went down thisyear from 1992 and that stops a trend of seven straight elections, (iardner said.In 1992, the state set a total vote record of 545,197, which was at thetime K2.5 percent of those registered.Shaheen’s official total of 2X4,131was )ust shy of the record that outgoing (iov. Steve Merrill set in 1992 when he defeated then-state Rep. Deborah “Arnie Arnesen with289,170 in the record-breaking turnout election that ushered in President Clinton.That gave Shaheen 57.5 percent of the vote to 39.7 percent for Lamontagnc, who received 196,278 votes.Independent Fred Bramante captured 10,316 votes or 2.1 percent, while Libertarian Robert Kingsbury got 5,944 or 1.2 percent of the vote.As expected, the numbers mean the Libertarian Party loses ballot status because it needs to get at least 3 percent of the vote for governor to retain an automatic place asa party every two years.The Libertarians also lost their’ only state legislator when Rep. Donald Gorman of Deerfield losthis bid lor a fifth term in office.Shaheen’s victory margin by percentage was larger than what Merrill received when he beat Arnesenfour years ago by a 56 percent to 40«percent margin.The parallels are ironic, since Shaheen took the pledge to veto a sales or income tax if elected as didthe last Democrat elected governor, the late Hugh (fallen in 1978 and 1980.Arnesen was the last Democraticnominee to openly embrace an income tax as part of a system overhaul aimed at lowering local property taxes.Gardner said Shaheen is the only governor in modern times to win all 10 counties as Republicans have dominated Carroll County politics for generations.You may never ever have found that for any Democrat running statewide for anything to have won Carroll County,” Gardner said.She beat Lamontagnc* in Carroll County by a count of 10,605 to9,506.Her victory was not as large as Gallen’s second-term and last winover Meldrim Thomson, who tried to make a comeback in 1980 andlost by a split of roughly 59 percentto 41 percent.Clinton won 49.3 percent of thevote total just shy of state gubernatorialvote in New Hampshire to 39.4 percent for Republican Bob Dole. Independent Ross Perot got 9.7 percent, while LibertarianDid get most votes ever by a Democratic$400 and the total cost of the re-HarryBrowne, Taxpayer Party candidate Howard Phillips and other write-ins shared the remaining 1.6 percent. The official results also containedcandidate and is first this century to capture CarrollCounty.Both Republican Sen. Bob SmithNeither Keefe nor Swett hascount.Like Clinton, Smith also failed to crack the 50 percent barrier. He received 49.18 percent to 46.16 percent for Swett and 4.5 percent for Libertarian Ken Blevens. The rerest for write-ins shared 3.3 percent.And Republican Rep. Charles Bass won re-election to a secondterm with 50.5 percent to 43.5 percent for Arnesen and 4.4 percentbad news for U.S. Senate runner-up Dick Swett and 1st District Demo-and 1st District Rep.-elect John E. asked for a recoant, but any finish mainder went to write-ins.for independent and ex-Democratic state Sen. Carole l^amirande. 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