One Percent More Farmington Voters Voted Than October Snowstorm Year

Voter turnout wasn't much higher this year than Election Day 2011 when Farmington still had power outages from the October snowstorm. 

30.2 percent, or 5,204 out of of 17,246 registered voters, according to the results posted on the Connecticut Secretary of State's website. In 2011, 29 percent came to the polls to cast their ballots. 

Low voter turnout is expected in a municipal election year without a presidential or gubernatorial race, according the Farmington Registrars of Voters office. Typically, up to 80 percent turn out for presidential election years and gubernatorial races draw about 60 to 65 percent of voters, Leary said. Local elections average about 30 to 35, with 38 percent in 2005 and 2007, 36 in 2009 and an anomaly of 29 percent in 2011 due to the October snowstorm power outages. 

"The campaigning was pretty muted. I didn’t think that there was any intensity  to a lot of the campaigns,"  Edward J. Leary, Republican Registrar of Voters, said. "When the voters in general are content with the circumstances, they don’t make any action to vote or express their opinions.”

Farmington has two voting districts and seven precincts. 

This is also a landmark year of voting for the state of Connecticut, which allowed same day voter registration for the first time.