Turnout: 29%
by Staff | Sep 14, 2011 4:17 pm
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Posted to: Campaign 2011
Twenty-nine percent of New Haven’s 45,449 registered Democrats turned out to vote for mayor in Tuesday’s party primary.
The turnout varied in large part by whether or not a ward had an aldermanic primary in addition to the mayoral primary. Sixteen of the city’s 30 wards had aldermanic primaries. With a few exceptions (such as West Rock/West Hills’ Ward 30 and Newhallville’s Ward 21), those wards had the higher turnout for the mayoral primary.
Westville’s Ward 25 had the highest turnout, at 53 percent. Next came Morris Cove’s Ward 18 with 45 percent, and Beaver Hills’ Ward 29 and East Rock’s Ward 9 with 44 percent each.
Click here for the official voting results released Wednesday by the Registrar of Voters Office. The first page, for the mayoral primary, breaks down votes by ward; by machine, absentee ballot, and hand count; and by percentage of eligible voters. It shows DeStefano winning 5,716 votes, or 44.3 percent; Jeffrey Kerekes 2,895 votes or 22.4 percent; Clifton Graves 2,255 votes or 17.5 percent; and Anthony Dawson 2,032 votes or 15.7 percent.
The second page concerns the aldermanic primaries. Union-backed candidates won 14 of 15 primaries in which they faced City Hall-backed candidates. In the 16th race, City Hall-backed challenger Carlton Staggers defeated administration critic Darnell Goldson, an incumbent unaffiliated with either citywide slate.
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posted by: Anymouse on September 14, 2011 4:25pm
Hey, NHI, heres an idea for your next article… Campaign Finance TOTAL divided by total votes = dollar amount spent per voter. We ALL want to know those figures! Who can pulled votes using the least $ ? They might be better with ideas AND money!
posted by: Moira on September 14, 2011 4:26pm
How can people call themselves Democrats if they don’t bother to vote? We can do better than this, New Haven.
posted by: Jon Doe on September 14, 2011 4:33pm
It is so sad that people don’t show up to vote, I guess many have just giving up and have No hope for change in our local government
posted by: cedarhillresident on September 14, 2011 5:17pm
When I was calling HQ during the day she kept saying it is dead all over…Not just ours…I did not want to believe it. And here we are looking at the numbers :( I can not say that over the years I was ready to give up all together at times. But I can’t I have children! I do not want them to think it is ok to opt out and let someone else make the choice for them…. most of all as I look at the lists that come in as to who voted and who did not….I feel the need to say….shame on all of you that complain and bitch and did not vote. Come on don’t give up! I found it in myself and you have it in you! Show your children their futures do not have to be dictated by others!
posted by: numbers on September 14, 2011 7:05pm
Based on the machine count DeStefano has 5,250 votes. you total count has him at 5,716. Did he REALLY get 466 absentees?? From WHOM!
posted by: Cost per vote on September 14, 2011 7:08pm
@Anymouse
I did the math for your question:
Graves got the most votes with the smallest amount of money.
Kerekes #2
Dawson is #3
DeStefano #4.
Since the race is now between Kerekes and DeStefano, I think the choice (based upon your criteria) is clear.
posted by: first observer on September 14, 2011 9:50pm
There is a problem with the official numbers released by the Registrar. 5716 total votes for DeStefano, 2032 for Dawson, 2255 for Graves, and 2895 for Kerekes add up to a total vote of 12,898—not 13,397 as reported at the very end of the document.
The problem must lie in some addition error somewhere (horizontally and/or vertically) in the mass of all those numbers in the table. I do not have the patience to try to find it, but presumably that is the job of the Registrar of Voters (who surely should have done a simple check of the final vote totals as I have just done, before releasing them).
posted by: RL on September 14, 2011 10:36pm
29% turnout? What a disgrace….
posted by: Cedarhillresident on September 15, 2011 10:08am
@Cost per vote
if you read Cliftons statement just a week ago he said “Graves said he did not raise nearly as much as DeStefano.”
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/09/07/news/new_haven/doc4e681f1d64da1216299631.txt
Just saying…but with that said I think all the candidate were amazing! Bravo to them!
posted by: Stan Maclachlan on September 15, 2011 10:12am
This turnout is a real disgrace. 29%? Clearly much of the turnout is attributed to the activity of the union backed candidates and their work. Where are the Ward chairpeople? It is their job ( I thought) to get the vote out. Are you chairpeople in name only know? Frank Logue and Ben DiLieto recived about 13,000 votes in primaries where the polls were open from only 12PM to 8PM. In 1989, John Daniels received 20,000 votes to John Destefano’s 15,000. So this was a hotly contested race? I would say not.
posted by: Cedarhillresident on September 15, 2011 11:19am
@Stan Maclachlan
You are right that is what ward committee’s are for. As I was out there I came across people in several communittee’ that thought CoChairs were an appointed position…..trust….I took the time to educate them that the are elected positions and anyone can run for them. Next year is the cochair election in the primarys. And anyone can run for this spot as long as they are a Dem. These spots are only appointed when know one runs.
posted by: THREEFIFTHS on September 18, 2011 1:09am
@Stan Maclachlan
“I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don’t vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, ‘If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain,’ but where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote—who did not even leave the house on Election Day—am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created.”
George Carlin.
