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December 8, 2009

2009 Mass. Senate Primary Results

Here are some results of the 12/8/2009  Mass. Senate Primary, by Bob LeLievre (email:  boblelievre@gmail.com).  This post contains the town-by-town numbers for candidate results and turnout.  I don’t have access to detailed polling results, so I can’t offer any insight into the demographic profiles of candidates’ support.  For that, you can check out all the pundits’ opinions.  What I can do is offer some insights and highlights from poring over the raw data, something that really isn’t done in Massachusetts, or at least made public.  As always, I post all my raw number (see link below), in the interest of making public records more public and elections more transparent.

12/9/09 updates:

  • Added turnout, candidate vote totals by county.
  • Added statewide turnout counts for past 24 years.
  • Added % of voters voting in Republican vs. Democratic primaries in past 20 years.
CANDIDATE RESULTS (more…)

December 3, 2009

Boston 2009 Election Turnout Demographics

- by Bob LeLievre, boblelievre@gmail.com, last updated 12/3/2009

Here’s an update on turnout rate vs. demographic group in Boston.  This post includes info about the 2009 primary and general elections.

You may find this info useful because it difficult to find detailed information about from low turnout elections; such as off-year municipal elections and or various primary elections.   You’ll find lots of data from pollster and media sources for high turnout elections, such as even-year November elections.  People who know about it don’t publish it.  I think this info is important because most elected officials get their start by winning one of those low turnout-elections for city council, state legislator, etc.  So to win a low-turnout election, it’s very important to understand the turnout details.

Highlights:

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