Politics & Government

Where did Monday's Voter Turnout Rank Among Other Medfield Town Elections?

Monday's 1,298 voters was Medfield's highest turnout for a town election since 2008 and fifth highest since 2000.

Medfield Town Clerk Carol Mayer said she expected a large turnout for Monday’s annual Town Election because of the contested race for selectman between Osler “Pete” Peterson and Nikolaos "Nick" Athanasiadis.

“I think we will break 1,000,” Mayer said early at Monday’s Town Election.

She was right as 1,298 residents of 8,091 registered voters (16 percent) made the trip out to the Center at Medfield to cast their vote in Monday’s election. That number is up significantly from the 808 of 8,174 registered voters (10 percent) from a year ago and is the highest voter turnout in Medfield for a town election since 2008 (2,124 voters).

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"It was great," Mayer said of Monday’s turnout. "Wonderful ... I'm pleased [with the number of voters]."

Monday’s turnout was the fifth highest total in Medfield for a town election since 2000, according to Mayer. The highest turnout in that span was in 2002, when 3,651 voters made it to the polls (47 percent of registered voters). Here’s a year-by-year breakdown of voter turnout at Medfield Town Elections since 2000.

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Town Election Total Votes Registered Voters Percent March 27, 2000 265 7,363 3.6 March 26, 2001 2,000 7,791 26 March 25, 2002 3,651 7,686 47 March 31, 2003 1,578 7,750 20 March 29, 2004 369 7,776 4 March 28, 2005 85 8,036 1 March 27, 2006 163 7,818 2 March 26, 2007 876 7,913 11 March 31, 2008 2,124 8,006 26 March 30, 2009 201 8,203 2 March 29, 2010 1,009 8,232 12

March 28, 2011

March 26, 2012

808

1,298

8,174

8,091

10

16

To view Monday's Town Election results, click here.


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