Port Chester’s June 15 village trustee election is bringing an assortment of firsts. One of them is the unprecedented diversity of candidates for Port Chester village board. I wrote today about the three Latino candidates among the 14 people running for trustee — one each on the party slates and one independent. All six seats are up for election under cumulative voting.

Befitting Port Chester — where the Latino community draws from multiple nationalities and no one group seems to predominate — the three Hispanic candidates are originally from three different countries: Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The Andean nations are quite well represented this time around, though Mexicans, Central Americans and Caribbeans also figure prominently into the population.

Data analyst Tim Henderson sent me this set of Census estimates from 2008 for Port Chester’s Latino population, broken down by region of origin.

Total Port Chester population: 27,773

Hispanic/Latino: 13,633

Mexican: 3,206, or 24 percent of Hispanics

Puerto Rican: 830, or 6 percent

Cuban: 514, or 4 percent

Dominican: 451, or 3 percent

Central American: 2,761, or 20 percent

South American: 5,618, or 41 percent

Other Hispanic/Latino: 253, or 2 percent

For more on the election click here, and check out portchestervotes.com.

Barack Obama earned his first “pants on fire” rating from PolitiFact.com, home of the Truth-O-Meter, and the topic is immigration.

The site calls out Obama for likening John McCain to Rush Limbaugh. Here’s the Spanish-language ad in question. It says McCain and his Republican friends have two faces on immigration.

McCain has already earned the “pants on fire” prize for his claims on pigs with lipstick and sex ed for kindergartners. You can hear more in a recording of today’s Brian Lehrer Show.

Barack Obama has a 66 percent to 23 percent lead over John McCain among Hispanic voters, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center poll.

Hispanics are 15 percent of the population but 9 percent of eligible voters. It’s partly because those voters are in key states that the “Hispanic vote” gets so much attention.

Other findings:

• Republicans made strides with Latinos during this decade, particularly when President Bush won 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, but the picture is changing. About 65 percent of Hispanics now lean Democratic, and 70 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

• Most Latino voters said immigration was a very important issue, but other issues ranked higher in importance: Education, the cost of living, jobs, health care and the Iraq war. On immigration, 59 percent said Obama would do a better job, compared with 19 percent for McCain.

• Put another way: half of voters said Obama would be better for immigrants, 12 percent said McCain, and 32 percent said there would be no difference.

• Hispanics have consistently had lower turnout and voting rates than white or black voters, in both the presidential and congressional races.

• About a third of Hispanic voters are immigrants, while two-thirds are native-born.