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Municipal Election Voter Turnout Numbers Released
Saturday, January 4, 2020

INDIANAPOLIS — Secretary of State Connie Lawson announced that 23 percent (or 645,458 of the 2,851,245 Hoosiers) who were eligible to vote in the November 5, 2019 municipal general election cast a ballot. Not all Hoosier voters were eligible to vote in the November 5 municipal elections. Only voters who live in a city or town with an election or in a school corporation conducting a construction or tax levy referendum were eligible to vote.

Secretary Lawson’s office reports that Perry County had the state of Indiana’s highest voter turnout at 44%. Perry County had multiple contested races on the ballot including mayor, clerk-treasurer, and city council.

Jefferson County had the second-highest turnout rate at 41 percent. Jefferson County had multiple contested seats on the ballot including city council.

Locally, Steuben County was at 33%, Dekalb and Allen Counties were both at 30%, Elkhart County at 26%, and Noble County with a 24% voter turnout. Lagrange was not in the mix because they did not have anything on the ballot on November 5th.

The report was compiled by the Secretary of State’s office using voter data supplied by the office of the County Election Board in Indiana’s 92 counties.



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