Were Lynners More or Less Likely to Bullet Vote?

In this post, the Lynn-side Edition discussed the pros and cons of bullet voting (only voting for one or two candidates despite having 4 or 6 votes). With Tuesday's election behind us, it would be interesting to analyze whether or not voters used most, some, or all of their votes in this year's citywide elections.

Overall

On average, Lynn voters left nearly 3 blank votes (2.85) in the school committee (SC) race and between 1 and 2 (1.38) blank votes for Councilor At-Large (CAL). It doesn't seem as thought the average Lynn voter bullet voted on Tuesday; the average number of blanks for school committee would have been between 4 and 5 and for CAL between 2 and 3 if this Lynners chose to bullet vote more often than not.

Ward 1

Ward 1 averaged 2.71 blanks in the SC race and just 1.32 blanks in the CAL race.

Ward 2

Ward 2 averaged 2.79 blanks in the SC race and 1.38 blanks in the CAL race.

Ward 3

Ward 3 averaged 2.77 blanks in the SC race and 1.35 blanks in the CAL race.

Ward 4

Ward 4 averaged 3.2 blanks in the SC race and 1.54 blanks in the CAL race.

Ward 5

Ward 5 averaged 2.96 blanks in the SC race and 1.29 in the CAL race.

Ward 6

Ward 6 averaged 3.3 blanks in the SC race and 1.65 blanks in the CAL race.

Ward 7

Ward 7 averaged 2.73 blanks in the SC race and 1.35 blanks in the CAL race.


The wards that appear to have had the most bullet voters are Wards 4 and 6.


While the pluses and minuses of bullet voting have been discussed and debate, in the end, it appears as though most Lynners used most of their votes in this year's election.

*Data taken from: http://lynnhappens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Nov-8-results.jpg