This November thousands of voters are going to the polls. Within Los Angeles County alone there are nearly 100 elections ranging from city council to library board. With a fresh update from LA County, PDI has 116,000 new registrants since the 2012 General. A New Spreadsheet provides a quick look at the current registration, new registration and other information about voters in LA County’s UDEL elections.
Turnout for these UDEL elections has ranged from an incredibly low 7-8% to as high as 30% depending on the local dynamics. The figure in this chart shows CURRENT VOTERS, so a 7% turnout rate will include those voters who are new and were not eligible at the time. The 13U3 Likely Voter universe looks at voters who have cast a ballot in at least one of the last three elections and also includes Permanent Absentee voters who are new registrants and voted in the General Election.
Of the new registrants since the 2012 General, just 12% of voters were registered online compared to nearly 50% prior to November. Partisanship is fading with these new voters; 48% are registered as non-partisan, with Democrats holding 43%, and Republicans at just 10%. Permanent Absentee Voting is also on the rise with these newer voters – nearly half signed up as a PAV, up from 29% among LA Voters overall.
To get more information about voters in any of the UDEL elections, visit http://www.politicaldata.com/Pages/ReportCount.aspx for the counts or http://www.politicaldata.com/Pages/images/2013_NovemberUDELs.pdf for the universe descriptions. Once you know your universe, you can get the best pricing here: http://www.politicaldata.com/Pages/PriceCalculator.aspx
One final important tidbit we find in this data is that between 5-10% of the voter file has been tagged by PDI as either dead or moved based on National Change of Address or the Social Security Department. This in of itself can justify the cost of clean mail files. Sending mail to dead people is a huge waste of money… except in Chicago.