And The Primary Winner Is............

Florida's Primary Election Results, January 29, 2008
Let's start at the top with the state figures and work our way down to the precinct level. If you are overwhelmed by big digit numbers stick with us unless you are a natural-born statistician or a billionaire used to balancing your checkbook. I've dealt only with the two major Democratic presidential contenders still active in order not to drown you in a sea of statistics. Therefore totals do not add up to 100% due to small numbers of votes garnered by other candidates who have withdrawn or because some voters chose to vote only on the constitutional amendment on the ballot. Source: Florida Dept. of State. Division of Elections.

State

Total registered voters of all parties: 10,208,431. Of this total Democrats are 41%, Republicans 37%, Independents 19%, Other 3%. The total turnout for all parties was 4,259,848 or 41.8%. The Democratic turnout was 1,708,489 of which Clinton received 870,303 votes or 49.8% and Obama 575,794 or 32.9%.

Lee County

Total registered voters of all parties: 263,968 with a total turnout for this election of 151,320 or 57.4%, which is the highest percentage of any Florida county. Democratic registration was 76,250 and the individual totals and percentages are as follows: Clinton 33,541, 55.8%, and Obama 15,673, 26.1%.

83rd Precinct

Here we are at our own precinct where total registered voter population was 1,853. Of this total there were 1,520 ballots cast, a hefty 82%. The Democratic portion of this registered number was 341. I told you that the figures might blow your mind, but this isn't one of them. But hold on, 279 of these Democrats actually did vote, a whopping 81%. The Democratic totals by candidate are Clinton 130, 46%, and Obama 111, 39%. If nothing else these figures show us that though our percentage of total registered voters is very small, we are not discouraged and will continue to put our candidates at the front of the line for consideration by all voters.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

The constitutional amendment on property tax and assessment which needed 60% approval rating to pass did achieve that figure and may have been the impetus to the high voter turnout in Lee County and our precinct, but certainly did not jolt the total YES numbers upward to the same degree statewide. In the state the figures were 64% Yes and 36% No. In the 83rd Precinct the figures were 1,133 YES votes, 79.7% and 288 NO votes, 20.2%.

So where do these candidate figures leave us? Will our delegates be seated at the Democratic Convention in August? Stay tuned!