Davis County Election Analysis
Congratulations and thank you to all the winning and losing candidates for office in Davis County. The fact that these people were willing to go through a campaign says a lot about their love of our county…it is not an easy ordeal. Here’s hoping our new elected officials can continue our county’s track record for good government.
I do wish Democratic candidates had done better. I had no idea how badly outnumbered Democrats are in Davis County. Oh well, we have two years to work on things before the next election.
Interesting Statistics:
41.3% of registered voters in Davis County voted.
40% of those voting in this election voted straight party ticket.
Based on an average of the results of the partisan county wide elections (all precincts could cast a vote in these races and there where candidates from both major parties represented):
There were ~41345 Republican voters
There were ~16071 Democratic voters
40% of Republican voters voted straight party tickets
36% of Democratic voters voted straight party tickets
Pointless Statistics
In the contested Races Louenda Downs was the most popular Republican receiving 799 more votes than Orrin Hatch who came in second among Republican vote getters.
Rob Miller received the most votes of any of the Democratic candidates on the ballot in Davis County with Chris Martinez coming in second.
Of the candidates running for county positions without an opponent County Treasurer candidate Mark Altom had the most votes cast in his favor while James Ivie had the fewest (but only by 849 votes). This is weird since Mr. Ivie is likely more qualified for his office than any of the other candidates running unopposed when field experience and resume are taken into consideration. It seems not many people know what a county assessor does.
Now that the election is finally over maybe I’ll start using this site to remedy that problem since the assessor is the most important of the several elected officers in the county.
UPDATE: 11/08/2006 9:14 AM
It was late when I wrote this post. I should have linked the Davis County Clerk’s election results website since that is where I got all my numbers. Major props and kudos to the county for its up to the minute results. They did an awsome job announcing the election results and all citizens of Davis County should be aware of the excellent work they did together with Davis County’s Information Services department. Great work.
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Any service you can perform in getting information out about job duties and job performance of some of these administrative, less publicly visible offices would be useful. I disagree with the Trib that these should simply be appointed offices. The people should be able to vote for them. But the people need better information about these positions and how the people in office perform them in order to make good decisions.
Comment by Reach Upward — November 8, 2006 @ 8:40 am
Some interesting trends here in Weber County:
http://www.co.weber.ut.us/results-1.htm
We had similar numbers of straight party voters (which I disagree with personally), but interestingly, due to the positioning of a smiley face and the ‘next’ button, we had an inordinate number (2,334/13%) of straight party votes for the ‘personal choice’ party. Of those 2,000+ about 1,200 apparently realized their error and corrected it. So we gave poor old Roger Price 885/2.18% of our votes for senator! Also, that is plenty enough of a count to have changed a couple of the races.
The same thing happened here with one man running for a pretty big position with very little education/experience compared to his competitor. He squeaked in.
In Weber County, I noticed almost all of the republicans had a good web presence with explanations of their platforms. The democrats were 2/10 as far as candidates with a web presence. That’s the first place the dems could work on here in Weber County.
Comment by Cody — November 8, 2006 @ 11:44 am