General election turnout strong

Posted 11/10/16

According to unofficial results, 15,311 local residents participated in the election. That included a couple thousand people registering to vote on Election Day.

In terms of raw numbers, that’s the most people to ever vote in a Park County …

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General election turnout strong

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Perhaps drawn in by a highly contested and close presidential race, a large number of Park County residents turned out to vote in Tuesday’s general election.

According to unofficial results, 15,311 local residents participated in the election. That included a couple thousand people registering to vote on Election Day.

In terms of raw numbers, that’s the most people to ever vote in a Park County election, though in terms of what percentage of the population showed up to vote, the turnout appears to be about the same as recent elections.

Based on the most recent available estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, around 23,300 adults live in Park County — suggesting that close to two out of every three eligible voters cast a ballot. That’s about how things went in 2012.

Turnout was significantly stronger than 2014 — an off-year — when only about 9,700 folks showed up to vote in Park County.

For the first time in many years, Park County had several Democrats running for local partisan races — including three running for the Wyoming Legislature. However, they did not fare particularly well. No Democrat was able to get even 25 percent of the vote in Park County. Republicans won every single partisan race handily, with voters also rebuffing two Republicans who ran for the state Legislature as independents.

Going into Election Day, Park County’s registered Republicans outnumbered everyone else by close to 4:1.

Republican President-Elect Donald Trump received 73.6 percent of the vote in Park County. That was about 5 points higher than he fared in the state as a whole, but it was down slightly from the 76.4 percent support that local voters gave to Republican Mitt Romney in 2012.

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