{"id":790,"date":"2016-06-24T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=790"},"modified":"2016-06-24T19:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T02:56:48","slug":"how-berkeley-voted-2016-june-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"How Berkeley Voted: 2016 June Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 24, 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 by\u00a0Rob Wrenn<\/p>\n

Bernie won Berkeley!<\/h2>\n

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Bernie Sanders won Berkeley in the Democratic presidential primary with 54.4% of\u00a0the vote to 45.2% for Hillary Clinton, not a huge margin.\u00a0Clinton did best in the City\u2019s wealthiest areas, the northeast Berkeley hills in District\u00a06, in the hills above Claremont Ave. in District 8, and in the windy street precincts in\u00a0the northern part of District 5. These areas have historically favored \u201cmoderate\u201d\u00a0candidates in local Berkeley election.<\/p>\n

Sanders swept the flatlands, except for two precincts in District 1, winning South\u00a0Berkeley, West Berkeley and the central part of the city and sweeping the areas near\u00a0the UC campus, Southside, Northside and Downtown by large margins. He did well\u00a0in the areas where progressive candidates usually fare well in local elections.<\/p>\n

Results by city and precinct:<\/h3>\n

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Note: Student precincts consists of precincts in the area south of campus between Dwight Way and campus and 1 consolidated precinct on the near Northside, that includes the Foothill dorm.\u00a0Berkeley results include write-ins; Oakland, Alb<\/em>any and Emeryville and county results are based only on vote for candidates on the ballot.<\/em><\/p>\n

Turnout<\/h2>\n

Turnout Turnout in Berkeley was up this year compared to the uncontested 2012 California Democratic presidential primary, but was down compared to 2008 when Clinton ran against Obama for the nomination. In that hotly contested 2008 Democratic Presidential primary, which took place in\u00a0February that year, turnout was 64.5% in Berkeley, with Obama defeating Clinton\u00a0by a huge margin: 27,352 to 11,505. This year turnout was 58.0%.<\/p>\n

Student turnout was very low, which is not surprising given that the primary took\u00a0place after\u00a0most undergraduates had left town for the summer. No doubt some\u00a0students opted to register and vote in the hometowns they returned to when the\u00a0semester ended.<\/p>\n

This year, 833,803 people were registered to vote in Alameda County, and 49.3%,\u00a0turned out to vote countywide. Of 480,475 registered Democrats in the county 59%\u00a0voted. In addition, a little over table 1<\/a>40,000 Decline to State (DTS) voters cast Democratic\u00a0ballots.<\/p>\n

In Berkeley, 45,933 ballots were cast. In the 2014 November gubernatorial election,\u00a040,301 votes were cast by Berkeley voters. 47,303 voted in the presidential primary\u00a0election in 2008. A record 66,703 votes were cast in the 2008 November\u00a0presidential election.<\/p>\n

Turnout may have been dampened by media reports before the election that\u00a0declared that Clinton had enough delegates, with super delegates included, to secure\u00a0the nomination.<\/p>\n

Turnout in Berkeley, Selected Elections, 2008-2016<\/h3>\n

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Trump gets\u00a0less than 1% in Berkeley<\/h2>\n

The vast majority of the Berkeley voters\u2019 ballots cast, 42,476, were cast in the Democratic primary.\u00a0Donald Trump received 454 votes in the Republican primary; Kasich got 306. So\u00a0Trump was supported by slightly less than 1% of the voters who cast ballots in\u00a0Berkeley.<\/p>\n

9th State Senate District<\/h2>\n

Former Assemblymember and District 1 councilmember Nancy Skinner easily beat\u00a0Sandr\u00e9 Swanson in Berkeley, crushing him with 24,130 votes (62.6%) to Swanson\u2019s\u00a09596 votes(24.9% ). Other candidates got 4799 votes. Skinner swept every district\u00a0in Berkeley. In the Oakland portion of the 9th District, Skinner beat Swanson by a\u00a0much narrower margin of 44,012 to 40,650. Skinner and Swanson will face each\u00a0other again in November.<\/p>\n

Contra Costa County had not finished counting ballots as\u00a0of June 22, but the 9th district result to date, including votes reported so far in Contra\u00a0Costa County portions of the district is 48.0% for Skinner and 30.6% for Swanson.<\/p>\n

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