Politics & Government
Norwalk Voter Turnout Normal
Voter turnout as of 4 p.m. seemed not very different than 2009, according to the city's Democratic registrar of voters.
Voter turnout as of 4 p.m. seemed normal for a municipal election, says Stuart W. Wells III, Democratic registrar of voters for Norwalk.
By 4 p.m. 9,092 of the city's 41,723 voters had turned out, or 22 percent of the total, according to the Voter Registrar Office. With four more hours of voting until the polls close at 8 p.m., there was still plenty of time for the city to catch up to its total of about 13,500 voters in the 2009 municipal election, Wells said.
District A4, which has only 363 voters, had the highest voter turnout in the city, with 33 percent voting as of 4 p.m. Democratic Common Council candidate Michael Miklave is from that district, and perhaps he was able to get a good portion of his neighbors to turn out, Wells speculated.
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Rowayton (Districts E1 and E2) tends to have somewhat higher voter turnout in the early morning, perhaps because many voters want to take care of voting before they catch trains into New York City to work, Wells said.
As of 10 a.m., District E1 had 9 percent voter turnout, the fourth best in the city, and in District E2, 11.38 percent of registered voters had been to the polls already, the highest turnout of any district in Norwalk. Other districts tend to catch up a bit with Rowayton after work, he said. By 4 p.m., 22.68 percent of voters had been to the polls in District E1, only the eighth highest turnout in the city. District E2, was the second highest, at 29.75 percent.
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In District B, Republicans did not put up any candidates. Turnout there was lowest in the city, at 15.74 percent in District B1 and 16.18 percent in District B2.
As of Monday, 648 voters turned in absentee ballots for the election, he said. That number is not unusual either.
Total
Registered
Turnout
as of 4pm
Percentage
Turnout
20 Camp St.
2,883 520 18.04% A-2 St. Mary's Community Hall
669 West Avenue 2,043 361 17.67% A-3 Kendall Elementary School
57 Fillow Street 2,176 487 22.38% A-4 Nathan Hale Middle School
Back of Gym
176 Strawberry Hill Ave. 363 120 33.06% B-1 Columbus Elementary School
46 Concord Street 4,715 742 15.74% B-2 Nathaniel Ely School
11 Ingalls Avenue 1,106 179 16.18% C-1 Marvin Elementary School
15 Calf Pasture Beach Road 3,645 853 23.40% C-2 Nathan Hale Middle School
Front of Gym
176 Strawberry Hill Avenue 4,904 1,137 23.19% D-1 Ponus Ridge Middle School
21 Hunters Lane 3,772 690 18.29% D-2 West Rocks Middle School
81 West Rocks Road 6439 1,637 25.42% E-1 Brookside Elementary School
382 Highland Avenue 2,800 635 22.68% E-2 Rowayton Elementary School
1 Roton Avenue 2,417 719 29.75% E-3 Fox Run Elementary School
228 Fillow Street 4,460 1,012 22.69% Total 41,723 9,092 21.79%
(Source: Norwalk Registrar of Voters Office)
Norwalk Registered Voters
District
Polling PlaceDemocrats Republicans
Independent
Party
Unaffiliated
Voters
TOTAL
A-1 Tracey Elementary School1,124 453 46 1,251 2,883 A-2 St. Mary's Community Hall 771 285 37 947 2,043 A-3 Kendall Elementary School 801 382 34 956 2,176 A-4 Nathan Hale Middle School
117 75 5 165 363 B-1 Columbus Elementary School 2,166 539 53 1,946 4,715 B-2 Nathaniel Ely School 516 101 13 475 1,106 C-1 Marvin Elementary School 1,234 861 69 1,475 3,645 C-2 Nathan Hale Middle School 1,582 1.048 85 2,186 4,904 D-1 Ponus Ridge Middle School
21 Hunters Lane 1,136 898 56 1,672 3,772 D-2 West Rocks Middle School 1,984 1,541 150 2,755 6,439 E-1 Brookside Elementary School 943 631 67 1,159 2,800 E-2 Rowayton Elementary School 758 780 54 820 2,417 E-3 Fox Run Elementary School 1,479 940 80 1,950 4,460 TOTAL 14,611 8,534 749 17,757 41,723
(Source: Norwalk Registrar of Voters Office)
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