On General Election night, the vote difference between 4-term Ward 4 Democratic Councilmember Shirley Scott and her Republican challenger political newcomer Tyler Vogt was 1754. Click here for those results. Over the past few days the City Elections has been counting the remaining ballots cast at the polls (verifying signatures, then processing the ballots). Scott’s lead increased to 1862 on the final count. Tyler Vogt is the older brother of LD 30 House Rep. Ted Vogt.

The final count was released today:

Shirley Scott (D, incumbent) 42,029 (50.99%)
Tyler Vogt (R), 40,167 (48.73%)

Mayor of Tucson
Mary DeCamp (G), 4197 (4.94%)
Rick Grinnell (R), 33,926 (39.91%)
*Jonathan Rothschild (D), 46,723 (54.96%)

Ward 1
Beryl Baker (G) 24,976 (34.04%)
*Regina Romero (D, incumbent), 47,451 (64.67%)

Ward 2
*Paul Cunningham (D, incumbent) 47,366 (56.89%)
Jennifer Rawson (R), 35,727 (42.91%)

*Rothschild, Romero, and Cunningham won their races on General Election night, Nov. 8, 2011.
This was the City of Tucson’s first vote-by-mail General Election, and voter turnout was 31.07 %.

Mayor-elect Jonathan Rothschild

Ward 1 Councilmember Regina Romero

Ward 2 Councilmember Paul Cunningham

Ward 4 Councilmember Shirley Scott

35.22% of Pima County’s registered voters (out of a grand total of 477,959 voters) turned out for the Arizona primary on August 24, which was “closed” only for the Libertarian Party.

Official Results from Sec. of State website– for Pima County voting:

Democrats: 75,672
Greens: 589
Libertarian: 716
Republicans: 91,365
Total voted: 168,342

The question is which primary ballot did the Others/Independents/No Party Affiliation voters choose?

But look again at the registered voters in Pima County:

Democrats: 185,851
Greens: 1200
Libertarians: 3960
Republicans: 149,734
Others: 137,214
Total: 477,959

In Maricopa County there was a lower Democratic voter turn out in the primary compared to the Republicans (30% to 52%). This might have been due to the contested U.S. Senate race between Senator John McCain and his two challengers. Same thing in Pima County, Democratic turn out was 40%, Republican turn out was much higher at 61%.

Interesting stats: highest voter turnout in Yavapai County (41.35%), lowest in Mojave County (23.72%). And Maricopa County has more registered “Others” than Democrats, 571,968 to 541,244.

Take a look at the Secretary of State’s website to see the 15 individual County breakdowns on the number of votes cast, and for whom. Also for Pima County Elections returns (including breakdown of early ballots vs. election day polling, click here.)

The General Election should be fascinating, depending on how the Independents/Others vote, and whether the 2 major parties can get their voters to cast early ballots or go to the polls on November 2nd.

Arizona map of 15 counties