Election Numbers From The City
Nov 6, 2007 23:36 - 2 Comments
Here is a better breakdown of the election results, including winners and those who did not. Basic numbers are >from the City, but I reordered them in descending order. Above the line won, below the line did not.
Mayor / Votes / %
- Susan Hoffmann / 2,733 / 47.02%
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- Mark Pierzchala / 1,591 / 27.37%
- Drew Powell / 1,475 / 25.38%
- Write-in Votes / 13 / .22%
City Council (4 seats) / Votes / %
- Piotr (Peter) Gajewski / 3,019 / 14%
- John Britton / 2,609 / 12.10%
- Anne Robbins / 2,426 / 11.25%
- Phyllis Marcuccio / 2,397 / 11.12%
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- Carl Henn / 2,284 / 10.59%
- Brigitta Mullican / 1,870 / 8.67%
- Richard Gottfried / 1,858 / 8.62%
- Bob Dorsey / 1,844 / 8.55%
- Tracy Pakulniewicz-Chidiac / 1,336 / 6.20%
- Theo Anderson / 1,333 / 6.18%
- Eric Wang / 550 / 2.55%
- Write-in Votes / 34 / .16%
Please feel free to begin Wednesday-morning quarterbacking here, in the comments section.
I will say right now that no one got the results prediction contest exactly right. Watch this space for who got closest, and will receive fabulous prizes.
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Brad…outstanding work…thanks for all you did to help inform residents on every aspect of this election.>
Joe Jordan
I don’t know how much quarterbacking I can do without the voting district distribution of votes for each candidate but it seems clear that at least two correlations derived from past election results have not been maintained, possibly due to the differing characteristics of this election.>
First, the absentee ballot to poll voter ratio has deviated from the historical correlation, thus leading to an over-estimate of voter turn-out in this election. Voter numbers are down in the last few elections. I think the ratio changed based on two factors, less mobile senior voters are increasing in relative proportion to other voters and many are rightfully dubious of the accuracy and precision of electronic voting machines (something that was well publicized in state and national media).
Second, based on unofficial vote totals and total campaign dollar ammounts posted on this site) the dollar vote correlation is still positive but actually quite weak (the R-squared value for a linear trnedline is 0.22) even if one omits Hoffman and Mullican.
ER!K RE@D
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