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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

2017 Primary election votes

Since the Gardner Policy Institute has projected that Utah County should have a population over 1 million by the year 2037, I was wondering how many people would be voting in elections compared to now. Granted the latest results are not finished and less people vote in primary elections than general elections, here is a list of total voters for each primary election this month. 

American Fork Mayor 3,862 votes
American Fork City Council 6,915 votes
population 28,770

Alpine Mayor 2,359 votes
population 10,361

Eagle Mountain Mayor 2,259 votes
Eagle Mountain City Council 3,996 votes
population 29,202

Highland Mayor 2,986 votes
Highland City Council 5,776 votes
population 18,647

Lehi Mayor 6,280 votes
Lehi City Council 11,251 votes
population 61,130

Orem Mayor 11,817 votes
Orem City Council 32,553 votes
population 97,499

Payson Mayor 2,295 votes
Payson City Council 3,854 votes
population 19,810

Pleasant Grove City Council 7,637 votes
population 38,756

Provo Mayor 11,955 votes
Provo City Council District 2  1,148 votes
Provo City Council At Large 11,108 votes
population 116,868

Saratoga Springs City Council 3,222 votes
population 26,887

Vineyard Mayor 414 votes
population 3,953

The county didn't report, but there was a primary election for the office of mayor in Cedar Fort and Goshen. Both had three candidates narrowed down to two.

I also thought it was interesting that only Provo has city council positions divided by areas of the city instead of each council position voted on city wide like the other cities. I liked that 32,553 people voted in the Orem City Council election. I was disappointed that there wasn't enough people running for office to have primaries in the other municipal elections.
Here is the link for the election results, 
http://www.utahcounty.gov/Dept/ClerkAud/Elections/electrslts/2017municipal/summary82217.pdf.

The Census Bureau estimated that the Utah County population was 592,299 in July 2016. This includes everyone, but the County Clerk emailed me the number of active voters is 265,000 for the county, but I didn't ask for individual cities. 

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