Today, three weeks after election day, the final numbers for the Geneseo Town elections were released by the Board of Elections. There were no surprises or major changes from the unofficial results tabulated on election night, however, it did provide a more accurate picture of the much discussed student vote.
Overall, the students appeared to turn out at a rate of about 15 per cent with less than 200 of the over 1,300 registered coming out. This remains an estimate since not all students have on campus addresses. Of those that do, only 134 voted.
As might be expected the students who voted were enrolled in higher percentages as Democrats, or not enrolled at all. Almost 1/2 the students voting from campus addresses were enrolled Democrats and about a quarter were blanks.
Of those voting from campus addresses, only one in five was enrolled as a Republican. This contrasted with 47 per cent of the total vote coming from Republican voters town-wide with only 1/3 coming from Democrats.
This time around it didn’t appear that the student vote had a significant impact on any of the town-wide races, however, with close to 200 voting that could change in a closer contest.
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