Small Percentage of People Voted in June
From the FYI file…
In June 2004 a special election was held to fill the 25th Ward Aldermanic seat. A grand total of 456 people voted. Forty-two were by absentee ballot – leaving only 414 taking the time to vote on election day.
At the time of the special election we had 5,827 registered voters. With 456 ballots cast, less than 8% of the eligible voters did so. Hardly overwhelming turnout.
Here was the final breakdown:
• Republican Francis Wildhaber: 93 votes
• Democrat Dorothy Kirner: 363 votes
What was really interesting to me is the precinct by precinct turnout. The two precincts East of Grand had 5.45% & 5.72% turnout (01 & 04, respectively) while the two precincts West of Grand had a much better turn out – 8.78% in the 2nd precinct and 9.54% in the 3rd precinct.
We’ll have to wait until March 9th to see the results of the March 8th election.
– Steve
So Kirner’s base is 414 votes in a ward with nearly 6,000 eligible voters. Sounds like trouble to me…
Check that…363 votes…her support is dwindling in front of our eyes!