Only 14 precincts top 20%
Election precinct reports always reveal several interesting proclivities about an electorate. The report from this week’s City of Chattanooga election is no different.
› Only 14 precincts saw more than 20% of their registered voters go to the polls. The top five were Northshore (26.05%), Woodmore (25.81%), Brainerd (24.82%) Missionary Ridge (24.8%) and St. Elmo (24.54%). The remarkable thing about two of those precincts, Northshore and St. Elmo, is that they didn’t have a competitive City Council race.
On the tail end of the turnout were East Lake (9.42%), Mountain Creek C (9.38%), East Ridge B (9.09%), Hunter (4.55%) and Ooltewah (0%), all of which had a competitive City Council race.
› In the Chattanooga mayor’s race, challenger Chris Long picked up 13.5% of the vote against Mayor Tim Kelly, despite several serious revelations about his education and online past. The precincts where he attracted the largest percentage of the vote were Lookout Valley (29.5%), Valleybrook (24.8%), Hixson (23.9%), Dupont (22.4%) and Northgate (21.9%). Not included in that list were East Ridge B, where he got one of two votes, and Falling Water A, where he got five of 10.