The Hamilton County primary election is in the rearview mirror, but, as usual, it offers lessons on what happened, why it happened and what it portends.
Here are a few of our observations:
› Only 10.41% of registered voters bothered to cast a ballot. That’s the lowest turnout for a county primary since only 8.37% voted in 2010. In that year, like this year, there was not a competitive race for county mayor. However, that year sported primary contests in six out of the then-nine Hamilton County Commission districts. This year’s primary had contested races in five out of the now-11 commission districts.
› As we reported here previously and a news story updated, Democrats cast more ballots than Republicans, 11,329 to 11,151. We would attribute the change to what we hope is a growing number of interested voters in Districts 4 and 5, which had three of the closest races of the evening.