Four years ago, on the date of the last mid-August, non-gubernatorial primary election in Connecticut, 48 towns set up voting booths for the party faithful to cast ballots.
And mostly, they stayed home.
Among registered Democrats and Republicans, only about 14 percent – or 1 in 7 – showed up at the polls in August 2008 to pick Congressional and other candidates. (By contrast, municipal elections in November 2009 brought out 36.4 percent of eligible voters.)
Top turnout honors in 2008 went to Republicans in Colebrook, where more than 36 percent showed up to vote. At the other end, barely more than 4 percent of Democrats in New Fairfield cast ballots.
If better numbers are reported this year, the battle for U.S. Senate will likely take some of the credit, as will the fight in the Fifth Congressional District, where four Republicans and three Democrats are vying for the November ballot.
The chart below shows voter turnout by town and party in the August 12, 2008 election.
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