Jacksonville municipal election turnout finally hits 10%

[RandySF]

The race to replace Lenny Curry as Jacksonville Mayor drew the deepest field of candidates in years, but so far voter interest hasn’t matched.

As of 4:50 p.m. Thursday, turnout finally crossed the 10% threshold, with 65,543 votes at that point.

Of that total, 34,916 were early in-person votes, which would have been cast since March 6. An additional 30,612 were mail ballots.

Democrats have a plurality advantage thus far, one that may not hold up through Election Day, which is historically dominated by Republican turnout.

A total of 30,095 Democrats had voted as of this article’s writing, which comes out to 45.9% of the total turnout.

Republicans had cast 27,833 votes, which comes out to 42.4% of the total.

No-party voters made up another 10.5% of the total turnout, while those registered to other parties made up 1.1% of the total turnout.




https://floridapolitics.com/archives/596071-jacksonville-municipal-election-turnout-finally-hits-10/

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. vote!!!

[Hortensis]

2. Disgraceful.

[SheltieLover]

3. Xpost to Florida, please?

[Old Crank]

4. Mayor of 5%

I've been given a mandate!

[cachukis]

5. Be aware, in Florida, many conservatives never switched

parties from the segregation days. The Democrats lead in numbers is not reliable.

[lark]

6. Hubs and I are part of the 45.9% of Dems who have voted.

I will remind the kids today.

[Emile]

7. Largest city in the United States and that was their turnout.

Shameful

For people scratching their heads:

Due to Jacksonville's governmental consolidation with Duval County in 1968 greatly increased the land area of Jacksonville to over 700 square miles, making it the largest city in the contiguous United States.

[peggysue2]

8. 10% turnout?

This is the way you lose a country.

Don't care if it's a municipal election or not. In fact, local elections can have a greater impact on individual day-to-day lives than state or national elections. The American First Movement understands this rationale and has been pitching local candidates across the country, a concerted ground-up approach.

We gotta do better than this! Even in Florida where the Republican machine is in full tilt.

If Americans do not exercise their right to vote at all levels, they will lose that right, effectively handing the country over to the mobsters and psychopaths.

Hurts my heart to read something like this.

[madville]

9. There is so much retired military there

And they vote red, in person, on Election Day. Always swings the mayor election to the Republican.

This is why many Blue cities don’t want to expand their city limits to more wealthy and white suburban areas, big impacts politically.