New record set locally for mid-term elections

Bartholomew County set new record vote totals Tuesday for a mid-term election, with the highest voter turnout since 1982, according to County Clerk Jay Phelps.

Bartholomew County had 26,873 voters cast ballots, which shattered the 1982 record of 23,949 voters. Nearly half of those ballots, 11,780, were cast early either at the county courthouse, the early voting satellite sites or by mail-in ballot. That is a turnout of 53 percent of the county’s 50,729 registered voters.

In the 2014 mid-term election, there were just under 17,000 voters, or 32 percent of the registered voters. In 2010, 20,147 Bartholomew County voters cast ballots, a 40 percent turnout. And in 2006, 42 percent of Bartholomew County voters actually voted, or 21,558 voters.

There were 7,790 voters who cast straight Republican Party ballots yesterday, compared to 2,571 Democrat straight-party voters. 17 people voted Libertarian straight-party tickets.