Westvilleans and East Rockers had the busiest voting precincts for the Nov. 3 election, in which over 42,000 New Haveners cast ballots — and approved a peace referendum question by almost a 5 – 1 margin.
Those last pieces of unreported information emerged Tuesday as the Registrar of Voters office released a spreadsheet with ward-by-ward breakdowns of the Nov. 3 vote, including the peace referendum results.
Click here to see the spreadsheet.
Overall, 66.28 percent of New Haven’s registered voters voted in the election, or 42,257 individuals; 14,016 cast absentee ballots. That came close but didn’t quite equal 2016’s citywide total vote of 42,444.
Westville’s Ward 25 cast the most votes in the election, 2,486. East Rock’s Ward 10 came in second with 2,415, then Downtown/East Rock’s Ward 7 with 2,354, Upper Westville/Beverly Hills’ Ward 26 with 2,261, and Morris Cove’s Ward 18 with 2,189. Newhallville’s Ward 20 came next with 1,838 votes, followed closely by the Annex/Ward 17 with 1,815,
The peace referendum question passed with 27,419 voting yes compared to 5,678 voting no. The official wording of the nonbinding referendum was: “Shall Congress prepare for health and climate crises by transferring funds from the military budget to cities for human needs, jobs, and an environmentally sustainable economy?”
Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden clobbered Republican Donald Trump in New Haven, 84.37 to 15.6 percent.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro captured 84.67 percent of the New Haven vote, compared to 13.31 for Republican Margaret Streicker. (They each ran on two different party lines, so those are combined figures.) Green Justin Paglino captured 1.5 percent of the New Haven vote. In the entire Third U.S. Congressional District, DeLauro was elected to her 16th two-year term with 58.67 percent of the vote compared to 39.83 percent for Streicker and 2.02 percent for Paglino.
The only contest in which the outcome was uncertain was for registrar of voters.
A mind-blowing state law guarantees that Democratic and Republican candidates automatically win in their races for those positions even if other candidates get more votes. If third-party candidates come in second, they get to add a third staff to the office.
Two third-party candidates gave it a run in New Haven this year and came up short for that second-place finish.
According to the secretary of the state official results page, Democrat Shannel Evans was reelected with 26,006 votes. Republican Marlene Napolitano was reelected with 4,663 votes. Working Families Party candidate Sergio Rodriguez pulled in 3,365, and Green Paul Garlinghouse, 1,060.
The spreadsheet released Tuesday by the Registrar of Voters Office had the same finishing order, but different vote totals: 28,955 for Evans, 5,010 for Napolitano, 3,582 for Rodriguez, 1,131 for Garlinghouse.
The other races were blowouts. All Democratic state legislators were reelected, for instance, by wide margins. State Sen. Martin Looney, for instance, captured 81.3 percent of the New Haven vote and 74.7 percent of the overall district vote. State Sen. Gary Winfield (running on two lines) captured 85.5 percent of the New Haven vote, 78 percent of the overall district vote. Each faced two challengers.
Kevin Sanchez Walsh
