Fewer than one in five registered voters in Hamilton County submitted ballots in Tuesday’s primary election, the county’s lowest turnout in 12 years.
By the time polls closed Tuesday, 18.3% of voters had weighed in, casting 41,430 ballots, according to data from the county’s election commission.
Around three-quarters of those ballots were cast in the Republican primary, and the rest for the Democrats, according to vote totals.
(READ MORE: Chattanooga-area primary election results)