Published: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 7:30 PM ??? Updated: Wednesday, November 03, 2010, 7:31 PM
About half of all registered voters in Mobile and Baldwin counties cast their ballots in Tuesday’s general election, according to area election officials.
Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis said nearly 43 percent of registered voters, or 111,049 people, turned out at the polls. “We had a good turnout,” he said, “but it wasn’t fantastic.”
The number of voters in Mobile County held nearly steady from the last gubernatorial election in 2006, when nearly 41 percent of registered voters, or 93,291 people, cast ballots.
In Baldwin County, 58,171 people, or nearly 51 percent of registered voters, went to the polls Tuesday, according to the Probate Court’s website.
Percentages from past elections aren’t available online in Baldwin County, but by comparison, 46,117 people cast their votes in the 2006 election.
Davis said two polling locations that doubled for both the general election and a special city election to determine the District 6 Mobile City Council seat were busy as expected.
At Hillcrest Baptist Church and Our Savior Baptist Church “there were long lines,” Davis said. “We didn’t have the space we were supposed to, so that prompted delays.”
Statewide, 57 percent of registered voters cast ballots, according to Jean Brown, the legal adviser for the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, but Brown was unable to provide the exact number of voters who turned out Tuesday.
In the 2006 election, 1,250,401 people, or about 50 percent of registered voters statewide, cast votes.?
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