Or were people so disgusted with the campaigns that they only voted for a select group of candidates? Here are the vote totals listed on the McHenry County Clerk’s web site as of 9:30 AM: A Friend of McHenry County … Continue reading
Category Archives: Turnout
Apparently every time someone votes it is recorded in Woodstock. Here are the 5:25 results: Here’s 5:55 PM: Here is 6:25 PM: What a pathetic turnout. Four years ago, when township officers were last on the ballot, 32,963 voted. That … Continue reading
Not only has Donald Trump and the rest of the Republicans down to State Representative achieved victory in the McHenry High School District Mock Election, but they have also done so at Cary-Grove High School. Results can be seen below: … Continue reading
Almost 28,000 more people took Democrat primary ballots, and 19,000 more people took Republican primary ballots. In 2012, only 5,281 people voted in the uncontested Democrat Presidential contest; in 2016, 33,857 people voted in the Democrat primary. As is always … Continue reading
The U.S. Census Bureau issued this graphic concerning Martin Luther King Day: … Continue reading
McHenry County voters stayed home in droves on April 7th. Only 10.9% of those registered to vote did so. That’s about 22,496 people. In a two-way race, that means just over 5% of the voters could decide who rules. In … Continue reading
A friend of McHenry County Blog arranged fall voter turnout from highest to lowest for those precincts with Republican Precinct Committeemen. You see the results below: … Continue reading
Less than 50% of the voters turned out to vote in McHenry County. But that’s not so bad, when one looks at what has happened in off-year elections during this century. Look at the numbers: 2002 – 45.73% 2006 – 44.40% … Continue reading
The voter turnout figures for McHenry County’s March 18, 2014, Primary Election are below. Let’s look at those precincts and see where 25% or more of the voters turned out. 40.2% – Grafton 15 (Margo Bunda ran uncontested for committeeman, … Continue reading
Algonquin Township is where I serve as the Republican Precinct Committeeman in the 7th precinct. It’s is located in the northwest corner of the township. Across my street is Grafton Township. When the canvass of the February 26th primary were … Continue reading
Turnout was really terrible in most of the precincts which held Republican Party township primary elections. Today, let’s take a look at who voted where in Grafton Township’s hot three-way Township Supervisor race and two-way Assessor and Road Commissioner contests. … Continue reading
2008 was the first year since the Republican Party was formed that a Democrat carried McHenry County. Barack Obama got 51.8% of the ballots cast to John McCains’s 44.5%. This year, the Republicans took McHenry County. Mitt Romney won 53.3% … Continue reading
Democrat Mary Margaret figures it takes three mailings to crack through the Republican Party dominance in the McHenry-Richmond-Burton Township County Board District in which she is running. Saturday, the third piece is scheduled to hit mailboxes in this five-way McHenry … Continue reading
As the election has less than three more hours for Illinois voters to cast ballots, Congressman Randy Hultgren’s campaign manager Joe Calomino is telling supporters of the low turnout and urging them to vote: “It appears that voter turnout is … Continue reading
No contest for Crystal Lake Mayor or City Council. No contest for Crystal Lake Park Board. Those are usually the big vote draws on election day. In addition, there are no contests for the Crystal Lake High School Board. The … Continue reading
The Republican Party wins 11 of 19 U.S. House Seats in Illinois, but Bill Brady is behind in the gubernatorial count. Eleven out of 19 is a pretty darn good showing for Republicans in Illinois for U.S. House seats. A … Continue reading
Voters got shunted into the little room without a lake view again today. So much for the Park District’s being able to recognize that voters might like to see what their tax dollars have bought. One good thing was that … Continue reading
While the Algonquin Township Republican Central Committee organization meeting was going on, I was calculating the percentages of Republican turnout in the 68 precincts. I was stimulated to do so by the abysmally low turnout in my Algonquin Township Precinct … Continue reading