I will be posting detailed election and turnout results on Wednesday 1/20/2010 as the raw data becomes available.
For the primary on 12/8/2009, the Boston Globe website (www.boston.com) was the only place I know of that posted town-by-town results. The Globe seems to get an exclusive on this kind of election day data, which is odd since it is a public record. Unfortunately, the Globe no longer seems to have the resources to do much detailed analysis of election result numbers anymore. Historically, the Secretary of State’s office (http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleidx.htm) does a lousy job of publishing election results.
For the primary, final results for all 351 cities/towns were posted by 1am on Wednesday morning. Since the general turnout will be much higher than the primary (834K), it will probably take longer to tabulate the final counts. By the way, my prediction for today’s turnout is 1.8 million.
If you have any data to share, please email it to boblelievre@gmail.com
See lots of old results here:
http://bostonmaelections.wordpress.com
Thanks.
- Bob
IIRC, the Globe and the AP call all the cities and towns to get the election results.
Comment by James O'Keefe — January 20, 2010 @ 11:17 am
Do they really have a crew of people make repeated calls to 351 cities/towns for 3 hours? What a waste of time, since Galvin’s office can easily release all this info centrally, since all the data is uploaded to Galvin’s office in real-time. Do you know where the minute-by-minute updated state-wide totals come from? Not from Galvin? Does Galvin make any election results public?
Comment by Bob LeLievre — January 20, 2010 @ 4:02 pm
Yes, I believe it would need to be a crew of folks to make the calls.
I don’t think there are minute by minute updates, I think the AP or the Globe just put the updates as they have enough of them.
And yes, the Sec. of the Commonwealth could just release this info as it comes in as other states do.
Comment by James O'Keefe — January 21, 2010 @ 1:19 pm
Interesting. so you think Galvin doesn’t even issue any numbers at all to the media, not even the state-wide totals? You think all the TV and radio stations that report election results are all using the Globe’s numbers?
Comment by Bob LeLievre — January 21, 2010 @ 1:46 pm