Well it's finally over, at least the City's part anyway.
In the Murfreesboro City elections 7,927 people voted with a turn out of 11.32%. The turn out was substantially higher than that of the last election in 2012. However, the last mayoral election was in 2010 which tends to bring a greater number of voters. Even then, this year surpassed the 2010 turn out of 6,660 votes. Increasing voter turn out was a major goal this year and having an increase of 19% (which is greater than the population growth for that time) means we accomplished it - even though it's still much too low.
Congrats to our new Mayor, Shane McFarland, the three City Council winners Madelyn Scales Harris, Rick Lalance and Doug Young, and our new School Board members Phil King, Nancy Rainier and Collier Smith.
The overall results are here (winners highlighted in yellow):
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Remember, you could vote for up to 3 candidates for City Council and School Board which means the total number of votes for those races will exceed the the total number of individual voters. The number of people who voted was still 7,927 (but, not everyone voted for people in each race).
The referendum was to approve moving the date of City elections to coincide with the August elections for County races. This will actually save the City thousands of dollars and should greatly improve voter turnout, plus it just makes things simpler.
The precinct with the highest turnout was #3-1 Leanna Community Center with a 30.7% turnout and the lowest was #19-1 Creekmont General Baptist with zero voters. Here is a list of the total votes in each precinct:
Precinct #2-1 Lascassas School
Voters 61, turnout 11.32%
#3-1 Leanna Com. Ctr.
Voters 66, turnout 30.7%
#4-1 Kittrell Elem.
Voters 5, turnout 2.13%
#4-2 Discovery School
Voters 202, turnout 12.55%
#4-3 Oakland High
Voters 266, turnout 13.84%
#4-4 Oakland Middle
Voters 20, turnout 22.99%
#6-1 Whitworth Buchanan Middle
Voters 1, turnout 14.29%
#6-2 Christiana Middle
Voters 85, turnout 5.86%
#7-1 New Heights
Voters 114, turnout 6.44%
#7-2 Barfield Elem.
Voters 245, turnout 7.79%
#8-1 Rockvale Middle
Voters 30, turnout 6.71%
#13-1 Bellwood Preschool
Votes 357, turnout 10.37%
#13-2 Cason Lane Academy
Voters 270, turnout 6.98%
#14-1 Siegel Middle School
Voters 1,104, turnout 25.54%
#14-2 Erma Siegel Elementary
Voters 805, turnout 22.54%
#15-1 John Pittard Elem
Voters 693, turnout 20.03%
#15-2 Northfield School
Voters 687, turnout 16.51%
#16-1 Central Magnet School
Voters 504, turnout 12.05%
#16-2 Mitchell Neilson Elem
Voters 121, turnout 15.05%
#16-3 Lane Agri Park
Voters 98, turnout 4.98%
#17-1 North Blvd Church Of Christ
Voters 328, turnout 8.49%
#17-2 Kingwood Church Of Christ
Voters 27, turnout 2.59%
#17-3 Buds Tire
Voters 17, turnout 3.32%
#18-1 Patterson Park
Voters 423, turnout 10.18%
#18-2 Riverdale High School
Voters 310, turnout 12.91%
#19-1 Creekmont General Bapt
Voters 0, turnout 0%
#19-2 New Vision Baptist Church
Voters 197, turnout 10.24%
#20-1 Blackman United Methodist
Voters 129, turnout 8.02%
#20-2 Blackman High
Voters 205, turnout 6.02%
#21-1 Hobgood School
Voters 270, turnout 7.54%
#21-2 Blackfox Elm
Voters 287, turnout 19.82%
