Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Unofficial Suburban Voter Turnout

The county election results websites offer some unofficial turnout statistics. 

Montgomery County 

Republican Registration & Turnout
208,545 Voters
Vote CountPercent
Cartridge Turnout23,59111.31%
Absentee Turnout3470.17%
Total23,93811.48%

Democratic Registration & Turnout
248,996 Voters
Vote CountPercent
Cartridge Turnout25,25810.14%
Absentee Turnout2710.11%
Total25,52910.25%

So while there are more registered Democrats than Republicans and more Democrats turned out to vote numberwise, Republicans came out in a slightly larger percentage.


Bucks County


Registration:



As of May 8, 2013:
Republican - 175,105
Democrat - 186,222
Others - 66,911
Total - 428,238

Bucks does not (that I could find) provide an overall vote total by party, but looking at election results and taking the largest number of votes for any county-wide candidate, here is an estimate of the number of voters by party

Republican: 25,605 (number of total R votes for prothonotary) (14.6% of registered voters)
Democrat:  16,621 (number of total R votes for Superior Court judge) (8.9% of registered voters)

If my numbers are correct (never a sure thing), the R's came out in much greater numbers than the D's.


Delaware County

The Delaware County Daily Times reported on October 26, ("Democrats close gap with GOP among registered voters in Delaware County " by Danielle Lynch):

As of Monday, there were 397,773 registered voters in Delaware County, according to figures released by the county and Pennsylvania Department of State. Of that total, 176,252 are Republicans and 174,890 are Democrats, which leaves 46,631 registered with other parties or without affiliation.
Looking at the unofficial election results and, again taking the largest number of votes for any county-wide candidate, here is an estimate of the number of voters by party:

Republican:  23,243 (for Mary McFall Hopper for Sheriff) (13.2%)
Democrat:  14,482 (for Superior Court judge candidates) (8.2%)

Again, a notably larger group of Republicans came out to vote than did Democrats.

It looks like Dems need to shift manpower from registration to turnout.

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