Democratic Club
by Mary Larson
LW contributor
OC Registrar of Voters’ Bob Page has officially certified the Orange County results of the March 5 Presidential Primary Election.
Unfortunately, total voter turnout for the election in the county was only 37.7%. Of the 685,038 Orange County ballots cast and counted, the overwhelming majority (84.5%) were vote-by-mail. Only 15.5% were cast as an in-person ballot at one of 183 Vote Centers throughout the county.
The percentage of voters in Leisure World was much higher than that of the county as a whole for both Democrats and Republicans. There are still no statistics available that cover the whole of Leisure World. However, in the LW area west of St. Andrews Drive, 72.2% of the 1,664 registered voters eligible to cast a Democratic ballot voted for their choice for president. Republicans did almost as well with 70.2% percent of registered voters also selecting their choice.
The LW community had the highest overall turnout of voters in Orange County in the race for president for the next four years.
LW voters did almost as well in down ballot races. This was apparent in the vote to replace Andrew Do as the representative on the Board of Supervisors. Of the 4,874 eligible voters living west of St. Andrews, 67% (2,865 people) voted in the race.
Dr. Francis Marquez, the Democratic Party’s endorsed candidate for the Board of Supervisors, was the featured speaker at the club’s March 27 meeting. She thanked club members for the support. She also spoke about what it will take for her to win in the November General Election.
State Sen. Dave Min, who withstood millions of dollars of attack ads in a bitter primary election battle to replace Rep. Katie Porter in the U.S. House of Representatives, will join the April 24 meeting by Zoom.
The November General Election matchup between Min and Republican Scott Baugh is poised to be one of the most important races in the country.
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