Politics & Government
Fewer Santa Monica Voters Turned Out for Obama This Year
Voter turnout Tuesday in Santa Monica was 56 percent. It was 87 percent in the last presidential election in 2008.
More than half of Santa Monica's registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday's election, but the number fell far short of the city's 2008 turnout.
Of 60,909 eligible voters, 56 percent hit the polls, voting overwhelmingly to reelect president Barack Obama, according to reports filed on the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk's website. Though there were nearly 2,000 more registered voters Tuesday compared to four years ago, the turnout wasn't as impressive. In 2008 it was 87 percent.
And, in 2008, Santa Monica residents cast 39,870 votes for Obama, compared to 25,635 this year.
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Countywide, preliminary voter turnout sampling figures showed a 66.6 percent turnout at the polls this year, according to the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan.
"Overall, we saw good turnout and voter participation at the polls," said Logan.
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"The success of elections relies on the community service we see across Los Angeles County. I want to say a big thank-you to the 25,000 poll workers that made the election run smoothly," he continued in a statement.
VOTES CAST IN SANTA MONICA NOV. 6, 2012
The following statistics are from the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk's office. Santa Monica numbers are based on 100 percent of precincts reporting.
President and Vice President
- Barack Obama (D) 25,635
- Jill Stein (GRN ) 407
- Thomas Hoefling (AI) 52
- Mitt Romney (R) 7,013
- Gary Johnson (LIB) 419
- Roseanne Barr (PF) 94
U.S. Senator
- Dianne Feinstein (D) 25,187
- Elizabeth Emken (R) 7,090
33rd Congressional District
- Henry Waxman (D) 21,565
- Bill Bloomfield (NP) 9,850
50th Assembly District
- Betsy Butler (D) 13,840
- Richard Bloom (D) 15,274
District Attorney
- Alan Jackson (NP) 9,291
- Jackie Lacey (NP) 17,702
Proposition 30
- Yes 21,856
- No 10,325
Proposition 31
- Yes 8,163
- No 20,771
Proposition 32
- Yes 9,535
- No 21,649
Proposition 33
- Yes 9,693
- No 20,822
Proposition 34
- Yes 21,430
- No 10,082
Proposition 35
- Yes 22,564
- No 8,606
Proposition 36
- Yes 25,820
- No 5,395
Proposition 37
- Yes 19,535
- No 12,469
Proposition 38
- Yes 9,900
- No 21,199
Proposition 39
- Yes 22,689
- No 7,707
Proposition 40
- Yes 22,026
- No 6,562
"Safer Sex Film Industry" Measure B
- Yes 14,727
- No 14,588
Metro Transportation Authority Measure J
- Yes 21,751
- No 7,844
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