When Columbia’s District 2 voters go to the polls July 13 to elect their next City Council representative, it will be the fifth time in four months they have voted in an election. And with eight candidates on the ballot for one seat, it’s likely District 2 voters will have to vote a sixth time in a runoff election.
So far, District 2 voters have voted in:
- April 6 mayor’s election
- April 20 mayor’s runoff election
- June 8 primary
- June 22 runoff primary
So how have the voters turned out? It’s difficult to tell. I know the precincts that make up District 2, but some of them are split precincts, meaning the precinct is split between two districts or, in some cases, split between city voters and county voters.
But here are the numbers I do know:
NOTE: I removed the River Springs and Westminster precincts. While they do include District 2 voters, no one from those precincts voted in either the mayoral election or the mayoral runoff. Lots of folks in those precincts voted in the primaries, however, which tells me most of those voters live in the county, not District 2.
Adam Beam covers the City of Columbia for
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I hope the District 2 voters can suck it up long enough to make an informed choice on only the second council person to hold that seat ever. The first one caused so many problems for the rest of the city–let’s hope the next one has more than his or her own pockets and glory in mind!