Comment 50841

By Fred Street (anonymous) | Posted October 29, 2010 at 10:11:05

Here’s an intriguing wrinkle: Wards with 10K+ in 2010 ballots.

Ward 11 10,554 votes (40.7% of ward pop’n)
Ward 12 10,226 votes (32.9% of ward pop’n)
Ward 08 14,956 votes (30.9% of ward pop’n)
Ward 06 12,006 votes (29.5% of ward pop’n)
Ward 07 16,002 votes (27.4% of ward pop’n)
Ward 05 10,473 votes (26.9% of ward pop’n)

The ward with the highest per capita voting saw a newcomer over the incumbent.

And here are the next highest vote counts:

Ward 10 8,671 votes (35.1% of ward pop’n)
Ward 01 8,373 votes (27.8% of ward pop’n)

Those eight wards have an average population of 37,300 and average income of $78,454; the remaining seven wards have an average population of 29,451 and average income of $72,236.

Would be informative to track which wards are proactively steering policy (ie. moved, seconded) rather than simply voting on someone else’s motion, and also which wards’ interests habitually mesh in terms of voting record and moved-seconded allegiances. Sometimes political apathy is not simply a grassroots dilemma.

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