Thursday, October 22, 2009

Day 4 Early Voting: Big Drop Off in Turnout

Another day with less people voting. First column of numbers - Wednesday, Oct. 21. Second column of numbers - today, Thursday, Oct. 22. Metropolitan Multiservice Center on West Gray still leading, with Trini Mendenhall Sosa Community Center in Spring Branch 2nd, Freeman Library in Clear Lake 3rd and Bayland Park (SW Houston) in 4th.
As I've been doing, I have the 37 early voting location ranked from highest turnout to lowest. A map of early locations can be found at harrisvotes.com, along with all sorts of other good info on the election.
Metropolitan MSC Neartown 389 292
Trini Mendenhall Sosa Comm Center Spring Branch 299 235
Freeman Library, Clear Lake Clear Lake 202 177
Bayland Park Comm Center SW Houston 211 174
Fiesta Mart Astrodome Area 135 147
Tracy Gee Comm Center Near West Side 171 138
Sunnyside MSC Sunnyside 130 125
Henington-Alief Library Alief 155 120
Palm Center South Loop 119 116
Courtyard by Marriott Far W. Houston 126 107
Barbara Bush Library, Spring Cypress Creek 96 106
Humble ISD Instructional Support Bldg Kingwood 114 96
Northeast MSC Northeast 96 84
Lac Hong Square West Houston 161 80
Cypress Top Park Cypress 77 65
The Power Center S. Houston Area 89 61
Bear Creek Comm Center Bear Creek 86 59
Moody Park Comm Center North Loop 73 58
Franz Road Storefront, Katy Far West/Katy 52 58
North Channel Branch Library Wallisville Rd 80 55
Main - Downtown Main Office 99 48
East Harris Co Activity Center, Pasadena Pasadena 54 47
Octavia Fields Branch Library Humble 66 47
Acres Home MSC Acres Home 90 44
Tomball Public Works Bldg Tomball 37 43
HCCS Southeast College Southeast Houston 45 42
Julia C. Hester House Kashmere 54 40
Jersey City, City Hall Jersey Village 57 40
IBEW Hall #66, Pasadena Hobby Area 56 32
Ponderosa Fire Station #1 Far North 19 30
Hardy Senior Center North 23 22
Lonestar College, Willowchase Campus Northwest 42 22
Ripley House Downtown - East 45 21
Baytown Community Center Baytown 22 19
George Bush Park Far West 21 18
Croby ISD Admin Bldg Crosby 15 14
Galena Park Library Galena Park 15 7

2 comments:

Mary B. said...

good breakdown of the numbers. the location of the votes, certainly leads one to draw some interesting conclusions, or at least attempt to draw some interesting conclusions.
I wonder if most of the votes will be cast during early voting, or on election day?

muse said...

Mary, I'm looking at overall totals right now and West Gray has had 1654 people voting. The next highest location is Trini Mendenhall Sosa with 1109, then Bayland with 972, Freeman with 717, Fiesta Mart with 682, Lac Hong Square with 657, Tracy Gee with 655, Hennington Aleif with 648 and Sunnyside with 609.

West Gray far and away leading the pack tells me that those persistent Parker voters over six elections are turning out once again for her.

Council District C is voting; Clear Lake is voting and the west side is voting. District D locations other than West Gray are voting.

I think we'll see more than 50% on Election Day, but I would not be surprised to see early voting capturing 40% of the vote, which would be higher than the previous Nov. municipal elections, but lower than the District H spring elections this year.

I'm assuming the HCC annexation is driving up the vote in Spring Branch, and I'm guessing it's the conservatives getting out their vote against it. Not sure who that benefits in the mayoral race.

Anyone else have any ideas what the early vote data to date means?