Here is my take on the results of the 2009 primary election in Boston. I like to look at them from a neighborhood perspective, not by wards, since almost everyone can identify with a neighborhood name more easily than a ward number. Neighborhoods tend to be more homogeneous in voting patterns and demographics (the book “The clustering of America” explains this well) than wards. There are lots of numbers here, and since charts don’t format well here, I have links to public Google Docs of all my data:
The Turnout:
Here’s a link to the turnout counts and rates by neighborhood.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArYPkyBtYlUKdDJzcG1mZnd3SF
