Local Elections: note--these are not all
official numbers!
Municipal Election 1997
- 17% - (uncontested)
Municipal Election
1999 - 48% - (contested, Democrat win;
Republican majority on the Board)
Municipal Election
2001 - 30% - (uncontested)
Municipal Election 2003 - (contested - Republican wins - we
don't have numbers for registration, but there were
@2536 votes cast for First Selectman [986 Democrats])
Municipal Election 2005
- 21% -
(uncontested)
Municipal Election 2007
- 44% -
(contested, Republican wins; Republican majority on
the Board - 2656 votes cast for First Selectman [1212
Democrats])
Town Meeting Participation: We note the 2018
Special Town Meeting adjourned to a machine vote drew 25% turnout.
April 10, 2001 - ATBM -
10%
April 24, 2001 -
Referendum - 34%
May 24, 2001 -
Special Town Meeting - 3%
June 21, 2001 -
Special Town Meeting - 3%
June 28, 2001 -
Referendum - 30%
October 18, 2001 -
Special Town Meeting - passed (% not available)
November 7, 2001 -
Special Town Meeting - adjourned to Referendum
November 15, 2001 -
Referendum - 65%
April 16, 2002 -
ATBM - 3%
May 30, 2002 -
Special Town Meeting - 2%
January 9, 2003 -
Special Town Meeting - 4%
April 9, 2003 -
ATBM - 3%
April 22, 2003 -
Referendum - (est. 58%)
State Election:
1998 - 58%
2002 - 57%
Presidential Election 2008 cycle
in Weston:
Turnout (our number -
all the votes had not yet been counted and hour after the
polls closed, when we left): 90.4%
for the Obama-McCain contest. See article below--we
were #1 for medium sized towns in CT! Also for the
final turnout number...
Weston Wins Democracy Cup for Voter Turnout
Westport NEWS
By Anthony Karge
Posted: 11/28/2008 09:45:56 AM EST
The right to vote is often considered a privilege and, in
Weston, voters did their civic duty. Secretary of State
Susan Bysiewicz announced on Monday that The Town of Weston
won the 2008 Democracy Cup for its voter turnout.
Out
of more than 6,000 registered voters, 90.84 percent cast
ballots on Nov. 4. Weston had the highest turnout among
medium-sized towns with 5,000 to 14,000 voters.
"Weston always does well in presidential elections," said
Eileen Buckley, the republican registrar of voters. "We just
have people very interested in voting."
She said that there was a large enrollment of young people
for this election, but the Weston registar of voters didn't
do anything special aside from the registration drives
required by law.
"It's very exciting and very rewarding," she said.
[Please read the rest of this article in the archives at the Westport NEWS website]
Presidential Election 2004 cycle in Weston:
Turnout:
90.27%
this Presidential Election cycle--as of revised returns on
turnout, Weston was not #1...we were #5 (previously #8,
before three small towns elsewhere in CT were "eliminated"
by "pilot error (our word)" in reporting: Roxbury
99.94% (still being reviewed), Washington 93.08%,
Wethersfield 90.83%, Darien 90.47%, then Weston
90.27%!
100% Turnout Turns Out False
November 10, 2004 Hartford Courant
Staff Report
Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz fretted last week about how she would properly recognize three towns that reported 100 percent voter turnout in the presidential election.
She needn't worry.
The 100 percent figures for Hartland, Madison and Warren were the results of imperfect paperwork by local officials, not perfect attendance by voters, Larry Perosino, a spokesman for Bysiewicz, said Tuesday.
Unofficial statistics posted Tuesday afternoon on the secretary of the state's website corrected the turnouts as 79.39 percent for Hartland, 82.53 percent for Madison and 87.13 percent for Warren.
[Please read the rest of this article in the archives at the Hartford COURANT website]Presidential Election 2000 cycle in Weston:
Primaries...
Although the dates were a couple of weeks off--the Primary was March 7 and the date of the numbers below is two weeks later--a comparison, courtesy of the Registrars of Voters, was made available to the League. These numbers measure VOTER INTEREST. In addition, the data showed Democrat registration up by one percent from the end of 1999 through the Primary; Republican registration was up by 1% as well. Unaffiliated voter registrations thus may have gone down...or new voters registered as a result of the Primary.
Of the 5,805 registered
voters in Weston on March 21, 2000, 27% are Democrats,
41% are Republicans and 32% are inaffiliated; we
estimate that approximately 20% of registered Democrats
voted in their Presidential Preference Primary and
almost 25% of Republicans voted in their's...
Presidential
Preference Primary Results in Weston: An excellent
turnout of affiliated voters...
Democrat
Gore - 285
Bradley - 328
Uncommitted - 7
Republican
Bush - 463
Keyes - 18
McCain - 653
Forbes - 5
Uncommitted - 2
The Presidential
Election itself 2000 drew an 87% turnout of Weston
voters.
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