2013 Des Plaines Mayoral Election Results

By Jim Vinci

For those of you interested in the April 2013 voter turnout and mayoral election results by ward, here is the link to a document with this information.
2013 Mayoral Election Results

The mayoral election results by ward are shown two ways: 1) the percent of total votes won by each candidate in each ward; and 2) the percent of each candidate's total votes accounted for by each ward.

The source for the raw precinct data was the County Clerk's website.  I then used the City of Des Plaines ward map to assign each precinct to a ward in order to get the ward roll-ups.

Following are a few highlights:

• The average voter turnout was 22.4 percent; 8,369 votes were cast
• The 1st ward had the lowest voter turnout at 13.0 percent despite having the largest number of registered voters (6,579) of any ward
• The 3rd ward (home ward of winning candidate Matt Bogusz) had the highest voter turnout at 31.5 percent
• The voter turnout for the 8th ward was 18.8 percent, which is below the overall average
• Matt Bogusz achieved the highest percentage of votes in every ward but the 8th ward

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2011 estimated population for Des Plaines was 58,617.  Using the 2010 split by age, approximately 79.8 percent of our population, or 46,776 residents, are old enough to vote.  There are 37,333 registered voters in Des Plaines, so roughly 80 percent of those old enough to vote have registered to vote.  Those not voting would of course include people who have not yet attained U.S. citizenship.