Clark County once again went Republican — but just barely this time.

Republican challenger Mitt Romney won the county’s vote for president Tuesday, according to final, unofficial results, by a margin of 49.9 percent to President Barack Obama’s 48.2 percent.

Close to 70 percent of the county’s more than 91,200 registered voters cast a total of 63,056 ballots.

Obama lost Clark County in 2008 as well, by a margin of 47 percent to 51 percent.

Champaign County went for Romney more decisively, by a margin of 59 percent to Obama’s 39 percent. Among Champaign County’s 25,370 registered voters, 19,737 ballots were cast, for a total turnout of more than 77 percent.

Voters like Bob Zettel, 38, voted for change. He voted for Romney.

“I want a different person in office,” Zettel said after voting at the Hillside Avenue Church of God in Springfield. “I’m not too happy with Obama.”

His wife, Tina, who works in the operating room of the Ohio State University Medical Center, voted for Romney as well, citing her distaste for Obamacare.

“We’ve not seen the blunt of it yet,” she said, “but we expect it to be bad.”

Locally, the election ran smoothly, said Matthew Tlachac, director of the Clark County Board of Elections.

Nkosi Walker planned to wait in a line Tuesday to cast his ballot for Obama at Covenant United Methodist Church.

“A big one,” the 35-year-old Springfield resident said. “I was really shocked there wasn’t.”

With long lines grabbing headlines elsewhere in the region and the nation, voters in Clark and Champaign counties mostly faced a lack of them.

“I didn’t see any real waits or problems at all,” Tlachac said. “We did have some lines when the polls opened this morning, but that’s to be expected.”

“It was a presidential election, so there’s always a lot on the line,” he added. “Our staff did an amazing job.”

He said four or five machines experienced times when they weren’t accepting ballots, but new machines were brought in.

Terry Green, 55, zipped right in to cast his vote for Obama at the Hillside Avenue Church of God.

“He needs another chance,” Green said of the president. “We’re starting to pull through.”