Yorba Linda voters: percentage turnout drops
Yorba Lindans cast more ballots in last month’s general election than in any election in city history, but because more residents were registered to vote this year, the percentage of voters was smaller than in the presidential election four years ago.
Here are the numbers: 35,164 residents cast ballots out of 45,494 registered for a 77.3 per cent turnout, compared to the 81.6 percent turnout in 2008, when 35,092 ballots were cast out of 43,010 registered.
However, 34,822 residents voted for one of the six presidential tickets on the ballot in 2012, while 34,734 voted for one of the 10 tickets on the ballot in 2008, so 342 voting Yorba Lindans didn’t mark a presidential choice this year compared to 358 four years ago
As expected, Mitt Romney won Yorba Linda with 23,762 votes, or 68.2 percent of the presidential vote, while Barack Obama tallied 10,350, or 29.7 percent. The four minor parties on the ballot split the remaining 710 presidential votes.
Minor party totals were 432 votes for the Libertarian ticket, 119 for the Green Party, 80 for the American Independent party and 79 for the Peace and Freedom candidates.
Totals for the two county islands, Country Club and Fairlynn, not included in the above numbers, were 855 for Romney, 405 for Obama and 28 divided among the other parties. Turnout was 1,296 out of 1,682 registered, 77.1 percent (eight didn’t vote for president).
Obama’s 2012 total was less than the 11,710 he won in 2008, when he took 33.7 percent of the presidential vote. Romney’s 2012 tally was more than John McCain’s 22,328 in 2008 (64.3 percent). George Bush won 67.5 percent in 2000 and 71.1 percent in 2004.
Response to my Sept. 20 column asking readers to predict Yorba Linda’s presidential vote, is worth noting, with all but one replying Obama would win fewer local votes in 2012 than in 2008. Larry Cope came closest to Romney’s percentage, predicting 67.3.
An interesting down-ballot race this year was for one of seven trustee positions at the North Orange County Community College District, with 58,000 students at Fullerton and Cypress colleges and the School of Continuing Education.
Realignment of trustee boundaries split Yorba Linda into three of seven new areas. Area 7, with 42,868 Yorba Linda voters, featured a vigorous contest between incumbent Tony Ontiveros of Anaheim and Monika Koos of Brea, each endorsed by a past Yorba Linda mayor, which Ontiveros won 26,633 to 21,098 (14,082 to 11,088 in Yorba Linda).
Two Yorba Linda residents, who formerly represented this entire city as trustees, now serve areas with only slivers of city territory. Mike Matsuda has 1,739 south-central voters in Area 5 and Jeff Brown 881 west-end voters in Area 6. Trustees must live in the areas that elect them.
Yorba Linda opposed the Prop. 30 tax increase 71 to 29 percent, but backed Prop. 32’s political contribution rules 64 to 36 percent, at odds with results from state-wide voters.
Buena Park’s Roger Yoh again will represent this city at the Orange County Water District, defeating Frank Alonzo 58.5 to 41.5 percent (56.7 to 43.3 in Yorba Linda).
Here are the numbers: 35,164 residents cast ballots out of 45,494 registered for a 77.3 per cent turnout, compared to the 81.6 percent turnout in 2008, when 35,092 ballots were cast out of 43,010 registered.
However, 34,822 residents voted for one of the six presidential tickets on the ballot in 2012, while 34,734 voted for one of the 10 tickets on the ballot in 2008, so 342 voting Yorba Lindans didn’t mark a presidential choice this year compared to 358 four years ago
As expected, Mitt Romney won Yorba Linda with 23,762 votes, or 68.2 percent of the presidential vote, while Barack Obama tallied 10,350, or 29.7 percent. The four minor parties on the ballot split the remaining 710 presidential votes.
Minor party totals were 432 votes for the Libertarian ticket, 119 for the Green Party, 80 for the American Independent party and 79 for the Peace and Freedom candidates.
Totals for the two county islands, Country Club and Fairlynn, not included in the above numbers, were 855 for Romney, 405 for Obama and 28 divided among the other parties. Turnout was 1,296 out of 1,682 registered, 77.1 percent (eight didn’t vote for president).
Obama’s 2012 total was less than the 11,710 he won in 2008, when he took 33.7 percent of the presidential vote. Romney’s 2012 tally was more than John McCain’s 22,328 in 2008 (64.3 percent). George Bush won 67.5 percent in 2000 and 71.1 percent in 2004.
Response to my Sept. 20 column asking readers to predict Yorba Linda’s presidential vote, is worth noting, with all but one replying Obama would win fewer local votes in 2012 than in 2008. Larry Cope came closest to Romney’s percentage, predicting 67.3.
An interesting down-ballot race this year was for one of seven trustee positions at the North Orange County Community College District, with 58,000 students at Fullerton and Cypress colleges and the School of Continuing Education.
Realignment of trustee boundaries split Yorba Linda into three of seven new areas. Area 7, with 42,868 Yorba Linda voters, featured a vigorous contest between incumbent Tony Ontiveros of Anaheim and Monika Koos of Brea, each endorsed by a past Yorba Linda mayor, which Ontiveros won 26,633 to 21,098 (14,082 to 11,088 in Yorba Linda).
Two Yorba Linda residents, who formerly represented this entire city as trustees, now serve areas with only slivers of city territory. Mike Matsuda has 1,739 south-central voters in Area 5 and Jeff Brown 881 west-end voters in Area 6. Trustees must live in the areas that elect them.
Yorba Linda opposed the Prop. 30 tax increase 71 to 29 percent, but backed Prop. 32’s political contribution rules 64 to 36 percent, at odds with results from state-wide voters.
Buena Park’s Roger Yoh again will represent this city at the Orange County Water District, defeating Frank Alonzo 58.5 to 41.5 percent (56.7 to 43.3 in Yorba Linda).
posted by Jim Drummond at 12:00 PM
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