Just under 50% of Alabama’s registered voters went to the polls last Tuesday – according to the latest information from the Secretary of State’s Office.
The mid-term elections saw 49.8% of Alabama’s 3,457,572 registered voters cast a ballot – that figure is higher than projections from the Secretary of State’s office which stated that it expected a turnout of between 35 and 40%.
Almost two-thirds of the Alabama voters who cast ballots in the election on Tuesday did so with a straight-ticket vote. The Secretary of State’s office said 1.1 million of the 1.7 million ballots cast were straight-ticket ballots – where a voter can choose all the candidates in one party with a single mark. That’s a total of 65%.
Cherokee County ranked #47 overall in the number of registered voters going to the polls – with a 48.12% turnout.
Here’s a look at county-by-county turnout, ranked from highest to lowest:
- Fayette – 59.93%
- Pickens – – 59.17%
- Greene – – 58.88%
- Butler – 58.73%
- Clarke – 57.9%
- Choctaw – 57.41%
- Shelby – 56.38%
- Sumter – 54.69%
- Marengo – 54.55%
- Monroe – 54.19%
- Clay – 54.09%
- Hale – 53.86%
- Jefferson – 53.84%
- Limestone – 53.45%
- Crenshaw – 52.93%
- Coosa – 52.81%
- Madison – 52.7%
- Elmore – 52.59%
- Washington – 51.79%
- Perry – 51.7%
- Tallapoosa – 51.63%
- Henry – 51.59%
- Colbert – 51.52%
- De Kalb – 51.5%
- Wilcox – 50.57%
- Baldwin – 50.22%
- Autauga – 49.95%
- Lamar – 49.84%
- Tuscaloosa – 49.75%
- Morgan – 49.73%
- Bullock – 49.67%
- Lawrence – 49.53%
- Cullman – 49.49%
- Blount – 49.41%
- Lowndes – 49.41%
- Montgomery – 49.05%
- Walker – 48.91%
- Calhoun – 48.85%
- Bibb – 48.69%
- Lauderdale – 48.69%
- Barbour – 48.51%
- St. Clair – 48.51%
- Geneva – 48.5%
- Chilton – 48.33%
- Franklin – 48.2%
- Dallas – 48.18%
- Cherokee – 48.12%
- Etowah – 48%
- Winston – 47.87%
- Marion – 47.8%
- Conecuh – 47.74%
- Escambia – 47.72%
- Talladega – 47.59%
- Coffee – 46.85%
- Chambers – 46.79%
- Marshall – 46.36%
- Pike – 46.22%
- Covington – 45.1%
- Mobile – 44.84%
- Randolph – 44.22%
- Lee – 44.12%
- Dale – 43.56%
- Houston – 43.31%
- Jackson – 42.04%
- Macon – 41.29%
- Cleburne – 40.84%
- Russell – 39.54%
(al.com/www.al.com)