So the County Registrar has finally posted results of the November 2, 2010 midterm elections for precincts and communities.
The PDF for the precinct data weighed in at 11,794 pages. It was so large that it nearly choked my PDF reader and I could barely page through it or even search it on my six year old computer. I would have had to dedicate some server horsepower at work to crunch that file. Such is life for a political nerd in the nation’s most populated County (it also hurts that the LA Times didn’t do interactive maps like they did in 2008).
However, what I did see wasn’t surprising. At least in my precinct, every one I expected to win, won. Indeed, it wasn’t even close in many of the races, though I was surprised that a slim majority of people in my Newhall precinct voted against Proposition 23. Strangely, Prop 19 results aren’t in the massive document.
So for that reason (and a lack of time) I’m only going to post the general Santa Clarita results. In Santa Clarita at large, we had 49.75% turnout, with 45,520 ballots cast. I think that’s below voter turnout in 2008 (you can see 2008 Election results here and here). Part of the problem with living in a divided community is that these results don’t include unincorporated County areas, like Stevenson Ranch or Castaic. I may try to incorporate those results in the future.
Anyway, I give you who & what Santa Clarita voted for in 2010:
Meg Whitman dominated Jerry Brown by nearly 18 points in Santa Clarita
The race for Lt. Gov in Santa Clarita was a little bit closer, with Democrat Gavin Newsom only losing by 10%
Carly Fiorina absolutely destroyed Babs Boxer in Santa Clarita by about 22 points
Ditto on hometown SCV boy Cameron Smyth who destroyed Diana Shaw in Santa Clarita.
And for Congress, Buck McKeon enjoyed his largest margin of victory ever I think, with fully 2/3rds of Santa Claritans voting for him.
Prop 19, which would have legalized marijuana in some situations, lost big in Santa Clarita. I've helpfully color-coded the results above
Surprisingly Prop 23, the Texas-oil funded proposition that would have suspended California's landmark AB 32 global warming law, lost narrowly in Santa Clarita. AB 32 is the same law that sent our OVOV planners back to the drawing board last year because planners didn't account enough for greenhouse gas emissions from future developments
That’s it for now. Overall, not many surprises this cycle. Apart from the marijuana initiative, we didn’t have any real red-hot social issues on the ballot like we did in 2008. Republicans swept every office in Santa Clarita (George Runner, Tony Strickland and Steve Cooley all won here as well) and by big margins too. Suffice it to say that Barack Obama would not have come close to winning (as he almost did in 2008) if he were running in 2010.
Maybe that statue of Ronald Reagan Laurie Ender wants in Old Town Newhall is justified after all.
No Daily Brief this week. Happy Thanksgiving!
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