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Our Voting Turnout Compared to Other Towns
From the two following sources, I've put together a chart showing percentage of voter turnout by town.
2008 Enrollment statistics from Sec. of State: st_county_town_enroll_breakdown_08.pdf
Boston.com's article "Town-by-Town Results for President"
Sure, it may have been high turnout, but we were below the mean for voter turnout across 351 towns and cities. Here's my chart:
Descriptive stats regarding percentage turnout across 351 towns :
Mean 77.29%
Median 78.13%
Mode 84.62%
Range 43.82%
Minimum 47.58%
Maximum 91.40%
Count 351
Here's how our percentage of voting turning compared with our neighbors. Yowch.
74.76% Westborough, # registered = 11,966
76.02% Grafton, # registered = 11,740
77.99% Shrewsbury, # registered = 22,468
81.82% Upton, # registered = 4,995
82.03% Northborough, # registered = 9,789
84.55% Southborough, # registered = 6,704
86.92% Hopkinton, # registered = 9,552
And, for those interested in a specific comparison, Westborough's five precincts and the Commonwealth voted as follows
Candidate | | Votes | | Town Pct | | State Pct | |
| Chuck Baldwin (CST) | 8 | 0.09% | 0.16% |
| Bob Barr (Lib) | 48 | 0.54% | 0.43% |
| John McCain (GOP) | 3,495 | 39.07% | 36.22% |
| Cynthia McKinney (Grn) | 12 | 0.13% | 0.21% |
| Ralph Nader (Ind) | 89 | 0.99% | 0.94% |
| Barack Obama (Dem) | 5,294 | 59.18% | 62.03% |
| TOTAL VOTES CAST | 8,946 |
Note, numbers are based on those from the Boston.com article referenced above.
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