Wednesday, April 6, 2011
8:09 AM
Turnout likely around 33 percent
While we're still waiting for the final wards to come in, we already know yesterday's turnout was significantly higher than the usual April election.
With 99 percent of the vote in, there have been just less than 1.5 million votes tallied. That puts turnout at roughly 33 percent of voting-age adults.
The number of votes cast is inching close to the 1.5 million who turned out for the 1980 April election, when the presidential primary was still on the ballot. But it will fall well short of the percentage of voters who turned out 31 years ago because the pool of voters has grown significantly since then. That year April turnout was 46 percent.
-- By JR Ross
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