Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Chevy Chase voters clearly supported Obama in the 2012 presidential election, but not quite as strongly as they did in 2008.
How did Chevy Chase voting in the 2012 presidential election compare to voting in the 2008 presidential election? In general, voter turnout percentages in Chevy Chase precincts were higher in 2008 than in 2012, and President Obama won by a few more percentage points in 2008 than in 2012. Here are the numbers broken down by precinct (see precinct locations below table), according to the unofficial 2012 results and official 2008 results published on the Montgomery County Board of Elections website: Voting locations: Read more on how Chevy Chase precincts voted on Chevy Chase Patch.
Was it coincidental that the Chevy Chase precinct with the lowest percentage of voter turnout on Election Day 2012 was also the precinct with the most registered voters (and vice versa)?
Should Friendship Heights get another voting precinct? On Election Day 2012, the Chevy Chase precinct with the lowest percentage of voter turnout was precinct 07-26, which votes at the Friendship Heights Village Center. Of that precinct's 4,053 registered voters, only 53.15 percent cast ballots on Election Day (according to unofficial precinct results published on the Montgomery County Board of Elections website), Patch reported last week. But precinct 07-26 is also the largest precinct in Chevy Chase. The average number of registered voters in each of Chevy Chase's nine precincts is 2,425. After Friendship Heights, the next-largest precinct (with respect to the number of registered voters) in Chevy Chase is the precinct that votes at …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Is voting passé in Chevy Chase?
Is voting passé in Chevy Chase? Voter turnout in Chevy Chase on Election Day was not as good as average voter turnout across the county and state. Of Chevy Chase's 21,823 registered voters, 12,176 of them (55.79 percent) cast ballots on Election Day 2012 (according to unofficial precinct results published on the Montgomery County Board of Elections website). Compare that to the statewide voter turnout average of 69.04 percent, according to unofficial results from the Maryland State Board of Elections. (The unofficial results do not include absentee or provisional ballots.) Montgomery County's Election Day voter turnout—66.13 percent of registered voters—also was less than the statewide average, but still was better than Chevy Chase's …
Chevy Chase voters voted against the gambling referendum by fewer than 50 votes.
Chevy Chase residents went against the grain last week, when they voted—50.20 percent to 49.80 percent—against Question 7, which asked Marylanders if they supported the introduction of table games to the state and the addition of a sixth casino in Prince George's County. Question 7 passed by a narrow margin in Maryland—51.9 percent to 48.1 percent—but six of Chevy Chase's nine precincts voted against the referendum. In all, Chevy Chase voters voted against the referendum by only 47 votes. Strongest support for Question 7 in Chevy Chase was shown by precinct 07-26 (whose voters vote at the Friendship Heights Village Center). The precinct with the greatest percentage of voters voting against Question 7 was precinct 07-21 (voting at the Chevy…
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
How did your neighborhood vote on Election Day? Check out the precinct results.
Precinct results for Chevy Chase are in, and the numbers are clear: President Obama was by far the favored presidential candidate in 20815. All of Chevy Chase's precincts voted in favor of all of the referendum and constitutional amendment questions on the ballot with the exception of Question 7 (the expanded gambling referendum). Six of Chevy Chase's nine precincts voted against Question 7. Only the precincts voting at the Friendship Heights Village Center (07-26), Rock Creek Forest Elementary School (13-39) and Somerset Elementary School (07-11) voted in favor of the expanded gambling referendum, which passed in Maryland. In comparison, Montgomery County voters voted in favor of all of the county-wide questions, and Maryland voters voted…
David
3:20 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
I was in line over an hour starting around 10:30AM. It was cold and we had to wait outside for 30 mins before coming in from the cold to wait another 40 mins. At least a few people I was waiting in line with bailed after 40 min. There is no way we should expect civic participation if it takes over an hour to do so. Four years ago it was the same. By contrast, I went to the CC Villiage Hall voting… more ›