With all 12 precincts reporting, the primary results for the aldermanic candidates in each party stand as follows. The top five from each party advance to the general election. DEMOCRATS Karen Young: 1.469 votes; 14.34 percent Donna Kuzemchak: 1,448 votes; 14.13 percent Carol Krimm 1,319 votes; 12.87 percent Michael O'Connor: 1,319 votes; 12.87 percent Kelly Russell: 1,299 votes; 12.68 percent Josh Bokee: 1,156 votes; 11.28 percent David Koontz: 1,036 votes; 10.11 percent John Daniels: 870 votes; 8.49 percent Andrew Kotkin: 330 votes; 3.22 percent REPUBLICANS C. Paul Smith: 1,006 votes; 15.94 percent Alan Imhoff: 882 votes; 14.85 percent Shelley Aloi: 694 votes; 11.69 percent Amanda Haddaway: 677 votes; 11.4 percent William Huckenpoehler: 633 votes; 10.66 percent Bill Ashton: 427 votes; 7.19 percent Joe Cohen: 383 votes; 6.45 percent Senitta Conyers: 361 votes; 6.08 percent George Bauer: 331 votes; 5.57 percent Robert Cassidy: 309 votes; 5.20 percent John Shupe: 236 votes; 3.97 percent Results are unofficial

"This morning I was worried about making the top five, so I'm surprised but pleased," she said.

"My husband told me he thought I would take first place, but I didn't believe him," she said, joking that this might be the first time he's ever been right.

Incumbent Donna Kuzemchak took second place, but incumbent David "Kip" Koontz failed to make the top five and move on to the general election.

"Kip is a good friend and I think he tries hard to do his job," Kuzemchak said. "A lot of this has to do with money ... I think the people who were able to make the top five are the people who were able to raise enough money to get their name out there. Raising money in this economy is tough, people have better things to spend their money on."

Koontz did not return calls for comment late Tuesday night.

Republican incumbents C. Paul Smith and Alan Imhoff took first and second place on the GOP ballot, respectively.

Smith said before the results were announced that he was confident he'd place well. With most of the precincts being recorded, he said he was gratified to have earned the most Republican votes.

"I was the No. 1 one vote getter on the Republican side four years ago, and if I had not done that well, it would have been very disappointing."

Imhoff said he was pleased with voter turnout, saying that that had more to do with his victory than his status as an incumbent. Smith noted though, that even the fifth-place Democratic candidate garnered more votes than he did.

Shelley Aloi, Amanda Haddaway and William Huckenpoehler took third through fifth in the Republican race, and Carol Krimm, Michael O'Connor and Kelly Russell rounded out the top five Democrats.

The Democratic race was tight, with only 21 votes separating Young and Kuzemchak, and Krimm and O'Connor tying, according to Tuesday night's unofficial numbers which do not include absentee ballots.

"The Democrats had such strong candidates, I don't think anything was a given," Kuzemchak said, adding that she had been nervous about the election for the past few weeks -- which showed as she paced City Hall waiting for the results.

Though the number of Democratic votes far outnumbered the Republican votes -- 10,246 to 5,939 -- Republicans were confident they'd be able to regroup and win more votes in the general election.

"People are viewing me as a more moderate candidate, which is correct, and I'm hopeful I can draw some Democrats as well as a large portion of the unaffiliated voters while still remaining with the Republican base that got me through the primaries," Haddaway said.

Imhoff was not concerned with the disparity either.

"For me, now the partisan politics are over, and I've got to run for an alderman of the City of Frederick , and that includes everybody."