Comments on the 2001 Preble election results (preliminary)

This is the preliminary information taken from the Board Of Elections web site. This info was available by 10 PM on election night so you may want to bookmark that site for future elections. The election will be certified 11 days after 11/6/01 or by 11/17/01 or so. I don't expect the absentee ballots will make any difference to the outcome in Preble. As you can see the voter turnout was low, as I predicted. The BOE told me that there were a total of 404 voters (900+ registered voters) so you can see that a large number, about 100, did not vote in all categories. Jeff Griswold(R) had the most at 338, Jane Davenport (D) was next with 329, then Tom Fox(R) with 326, Linette Currie(D) with 320 and last was Betty Ann Pitman(D) with 309. John Steger(R) received the least Preble votes with 239. It is interesting to look at the breakdown to see what Democrats and Republicans got in their respective parties. For example: Jane Davenport, a democrat got the most republican votes and the least democrat votes!

These numbers are very close to two years ago. It seems there are about 200 people who vote Republican and 100 who vote Democrat, automatically each time. Two years ago the voter turnout was much higher at 600 or so, (I'll have to look that up) because of the effort for the write in vote. But back then the numbers for the town positions were about the same. I'll have to do a little digging and post that information later.

Laurence D. Beaudry did much better than expected and might have won if the Preble democrats had supported him. The only thing he did was send out a postcard and a letter, no phone calls, no door to door. I'm not surprised he lost, I'm surprised he did so well with no effort. He did win Scott by 2 so at least his home town supported him.

	Conservative	John M. Steger Jr	38
	Republican	John M. Steger Jr	335
	Democratic	Laurence D. Beaudry	280

Total Districts	Reporting Districts
2	2

Town	Ward	District	Candidate	Party	Votes
PREBLE	N	15-1	John M. Steger Jr	Republican	215
PREBLE	N	15-1	Laurence D. Beaudry	Democratic	144
PREBLE	N	15-1	John M. Steger Jr	Conservative	24
SCOTT	N	15-1	John M. Steger Jr	Republican	120
SCOTT	N	15-1	Laurence D. Beaudry	Democratic	136
SCOTT	N	15-1	John M. Steger Jr	Conservative	14

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