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Counties in Comer's country had high voter turnout percentages

James Comer's home county, Monroe, had the highest voter turnout in the state
See Voter Turnout by County for all 120 counties: 2015 KY Primary Election Voter Turnout

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ANALYSIS

The results of last night's primary election was evidence of the importance of old fashioned, belly-to-belly, one-on-one, local organizational efforts. In South Central Kentucky, local, retail political efforts dominated.

Small personal efforts yielded huge results. Even in Adair County, Comer partisans are waking up this morning knowing that had they gotten fewer than an average of six more of their voters per precinct, their candidate would have narrowly won, rather than narrowly lost, the statewide election. Similar numbers can be calculated in the South Central Kentucky Counties where the Tompkinsville native did best.

Counties in the the CM 7-County area, all of which voted heavily for South Central Kentuckian Jamie Comer, had higher turnouts than the state average in the Tue 19 May election, ranked below by percent voter turnout:
  1. Cumberland Co., 1,111 ballots cast of 5,380 Registered Voters: 20.65% Turnout
  2. Russell Co., 2.774 ballots cast of 13,531 Registered Voters: 20.28% Turnout
  3. Green Co., 1,581 ballots cast of 8,606 Registered Voters: 18.37% Turnout
  4. Taylor Co., 2,982 ballots cast of 17,748 Registered Voters: 16.80% Turnout
  5. Adair Co., 2,206 ballots cast of 13,184 Registered Voters: 16.73% Turnout
  6. Casey Co., 1,792 ballots cast of 10,818 Registered Voters: 16.56% Turnout
  7. Metcalfe Co., 1,224 ballots cast of 7,601 Registered Voters: 16.10% Turnout
In James Comer's home county, Monroe, the 3,435 ballots of 8,516 registered voters, yielded a 40.34% turnout, the highest percentage vote in the state.

Statewide unofficial results: 399,196 votes were cast of 3,175,905 registered voters, for a 12.575 voter turnout - dismally low, but slightly higher than the 10% predicted.




This story was posted on 2015-05-20 03:14:23
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