Isanti Election by the Numbers

We have the official numbers from the election and there are some eye opening stats.

We had 2,193 people voting in Isanti of which 765 were voting for the first time in the City, that equates to 35%. That is an amazing number!

Now for the flip side:

In the Mayor's race I received 1,432 and Ms. Larson had 573 but 173 people (8%) did not vote for either candidate. This is absolutely a person's choice and the outcome would not have been affected. There was a tremendous impact on the Council Race however.

Kolb 899------31%
Kennedy 744--26%
Lorinser 693--24%
Rask 573------20%

1459 votes were not cast. Now this is a bit more complex as each voter had 2 votes to cast for Council Members. There was a mixed bag of some voters not voting at all for Council and voters only voting for 1 candidate. With a total of 2,193 voters and each gets 2 votes there were 4,386 votes for Council.

1,459 or 33% of the total possible votes not being cast had a dramatic impact on the election. 155 votes separate 1st from 2nd place and only 51 votes separated 2nd from 3rd.

Now part of this is the fact that the further you go down on the ballot the more voters drop off or the fact many people were motivated to vote for President or Senate but knew little about the Council Candidates or the high percentage of new voters do not feel a strong connection to City government or all the above.

We will never know why there was such a dramatic drop off but it does have a strong impact on the election. Thought it was interesting information.