District 1 Interesting Voting Stats
For those of you that like stats there are some really interesting voting stats as of last Saturday's early voting. Early voting ended earlier this week, so these aren't final numbers by any means, but rather just a snap shot at what things looked like up until that day.
1738 people had voted as of Saturday and 1051 of them were over 65. Another 449 were voters between the ages of 50-64.
So the lion's share of voters were, as expected, the older crowd. As of Saturday that meant that only 238 people in district 1 that voted were under 50 years old. In the 35-49 year old age group 178 people had voted and only 46 people between the ages of 25-34 had voted.
Sadly that means that you could probably fit all the 18-24 year olds that voted as of Saturday into a single 15 passenger van.
Those numbers are depressing when you look at them but they shouldn't be surprising for anyone that follows election numbers regularly. They are pretty much the norm.
If you're thinking these numbers are disasterous for Peter they probably aren't. He didn't make the run-off by relying on the youth vote and I'll doubt that they did this time either.
This underscores the fact that young people still don't matter in elections. But if someone were able to find a way to just increase the youth vote by 10% (reliably), you'd change a lot of voting trends in town. With El Paso being such a young demographic this is at least part of the key to unlocking improved voter turnout in El Paso.
1738 people had voted as of Saturday and 1051 of them were over 65. Another 449 were voters between the ages of 50-64.
So the lion's share of voters were, as expected, the older crowd. As of Saturday that meant that only 238 people in district 1 that voted were under 50 years old. In the 35-49 year old age group 178 people had voted and only 46 people between the ages of 25-34 had voted.
Sadly that means that you could probably fit all the 18-24 year olds that voted as of Saturday into a single 15 passenger van.
Those numbers are depressing when you look at them but they shouldn't be surprising for anyone that follows election numbers regularly. They are pretty much the norm.
If you're thinking these numbers are disasterous for Peter they probably aren't. He didn't make the run-off by relying on the youth vote and I'll doubt that they did this time either.
This underscores the fact that young people still don't matter in elections. But if someone were able to find a way to just increase the youth vote by 10% (reliably), you'd change a lot of voting trends in town. With El Paso being such a young demographic this is at least part of the key to unlocking improved voter turnout in El Paso.
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