Read all about how your friends and neighbors voted. Tabulated results and precinct by precinct voting patterns in the paper.
The Democratic candidates for president, U.S. senator and congressmember won easily in Greenbelt, as well as all sitting judges plus Ingrid Turner and all ballot questions including the most controversial, Question D, which was to add two at-large members to the County Council. These results are based on the ballot counts at the five city precincts, but it would appear that Greenbelters, like Marylanders, turned out in far greater numbers for early voting. Voting counts by precinct are not provided by the Maryland Board of Elections and the precinct counts do not include early voting ballots or absentee or provisional. While one might assume that those voters cast ballots in proportion to those who voted at the polls, that was not the case statewide. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received 41 percent of the votes cast for her by early voters, while only 26 percent of candidate Donald Trump’s vote total came from early votes. The turnout at the precincts constituted only 45 percent of the eligible registered voters, but if you assume that Greenbelt’s early voter turnout was proportionally as great as it was statewide, then Greenbelt’s total turnout would be about 74 percent of registered voters. In the last presidential election, 2012, turnout at the polls was 58 percent, but no estimate of the percent who might have voted early was made. (Note: One of the five city precincts, 21-16 voting at Turning Point Academy, includes non-city residents who live in an area outside the city limits.) Only one precinct, 21-8 Springhill Lake, had more people voting at the precinct this time as compared to four years ago. People moving into new development in the South Core of Greenbelt Station development resulted in some 150 new voters for that precinct. Even so, the percentage voting dropped.
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