Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle 1240 Stats (and no big surprises)

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle 1240 Stats (and no big surprises):


Seattle 1240 Stats (and no big surprises)

I spent time today crunching vote totals for Seattle for 1240.  (And no thanks to King County Elections where apparently they can't even give you total votes for the city of Seattle for any race.  I couldn't believe it.) Thank you to my husband for his help (and the Excel tutorial). 

Here are the numbers (and could you please, after all that work, give me credit if you quote them somewhere else):

Total registered voters - 411,607
Total voting   - 330,246

Yes - 130,727 - 39.6%
No  - 199,519 - 60.4%

But boy, we looked at the precincts that DID vote yes and guess where 98% of them are?  In wealthy