After I published the report on primary voting by State Rep district for Harris County, I got a note from Diane Trautman asking me if I could do the same thing for turnout. At first I said no, as the canvass data I had did not include registered voter information for each precinct, but then it occurred to me that the cumulative report did include such totals for each SRD. So, I went back to the original data I had, summed up the vote totals per district, and came up with the report that you will see beneath the fold.

In this report, I give vote totals for the Presidential, Senate, Supreme Court Places 7 and 8, County Judge, Sheriff, and Tax Assessor races. As before, the Presidential vote only counts ballots cast for Obama and Clinton, so the turnout numbers there will be a tad lower than the Ballots Cast number that the County Clerk lists for each district. I then divided each of those totals into the number of Registered Voters, and got a turnout percentage for each district. I only did the 21 SRDs that I could differentiate; I skipped the other four.

The State Rep district that had the highest level of participation across the board was Rep. Alma Allen's HD 131, where over 35% of registered voters cast a ballot in the Presidential primary. Other districts that topped 30% in the Presidential race were HDs 139, 142, 146, and 147, with HD 134 falling just short. HD 131 also had over 28% participation in the Senate race.

On the county level, the Sheriff's race drew the most votes everywhere except HD 127, where the Tax Assessor race had more, and HD 134, where the County Judge race won out. Not too surprisingly, HD 127 is Trautman's home district, while HD 134 is where David Mincberg lives.

Not much else to add here, though I will note that this should provide yet another piece of evidence against the Royal Masset crossover Republican theory, given that even in solid Democratic districts, the dropoff from the Presidential race to the Senate and other downballot races was uniformly steep. There's no pattern I see to indicate different behavior in Republican and Democratic districts.

Click on for the report. Let me know if you have any questions, or if there's something else about the primary vote you'd like me to investigate.

Dist   Pres   Sen   SC7   SC8 Judge  Sher   Tax Voters Pres %  Sen %  SC7 %  SC8 % Judge% Sher %  Tax %
HD126 14635 11553 10140 10170  8883  9528  9134  81404 17.98% 14.19% 12.46% 12.49% 10.91% 11.70% 11.22%
HD127 16736 12779 11121 11141  9662 10366 10447 100061 16.73% 12.77% 11.11% 11.13%  9.66% 10.36% 10.44%
HD129 15933 12259 10282 10413  9230  9502  9262  85972 18.53% 14.26% 11.96% 12.11% 10.74% 11.05% 10.77%
HD131 22232 17887 15941 15974 13982 15206 14368  62529 35.55% 28.61% 25.49% 25.55% 22.36% 24.32% 22.98%
HD133 12771  9886  8505  8507  7430  7741  7388  62041 20.58% 15.93% 13.71% 13.71% 11.98% 12.48% 11.91%
HD134 27170 20306 16220 16047 16029 14965 14585  93338 29.11% 21.76% 17.38% 17.19% 17.17% 16.03% 15.63%
HD135 13362 10538  9101  9108  7877  8532  8029  73689 18.13% 14.30% 12.35% 12.36% 10.69% 11.58% 10.90%
HD137  6862  5255  4512  4535  3925  4221  3891  34777 19.73% 15.11% 12.97% 13.04% 11.29% 12.14% 11.19%
HD138 12065  9698  8253  8281  7279  7996  7294  60837 19.83% 15.94% 13.57% 13.61% 11.96% 13.14% 11.99%
HD139 20924 16515 14600 14618 12733 14454 13371  68089 30.73% 24.26% 21.44% 21.47% 18.70% 21.23% 19.64%
HD140  9546  7841  6946  7030  5685  7341  5981  43692 21.85% 17.95% 15.90% 16.09% 13.01% 16.80% 13.69%
HD141 19288 14303 12459 12512 10372 11714 11000  70639 27.31% 20.25% 17.64% 17.71% 14.68% 16.58% 15.57%
HD142 21135 16417 14330 14391 12125 13814 12628  69171 30.55% 23.73% 20.72% 20.80% 17.53% 19.97% 18.26%
HD143  9156  7571  6582  6669  5137  6804  5352  43488 21.05% 17.41% 15.14% 15.34% 11.81% 15.65% 12.31%
HD144 12172 10207  8974  9066  7773  8596  7978  70135 17.36% 14.55% 12.80% 12.93% 11.08% 12.26% 11.38%
HD145 10890  9715  8095  8150  6613  8525  6708  44609 24.41% 21.78% 18.15% 18.27% 14.82% 19.11% 15.04%
HD146 27051 21057 18023 17945 16707 17612 16789  79415 34.06% 26.52% 22.69% 22.60% 21.04% 22.18% 21.14%
HD147 23322 18531 15781 15759 14008 15511 14322  71799 32.48% 25.81% 21.98% 21.95% 19.51% 21.60% 19.95%
HD148 16160 13287 11093 11168  9657 11999  9742  57314 28.20% 23.18% 19.35% 19.49% 16.85% 20.94% 17.00%
HD149 15945 12126 10557 10545  9068  9709  9206  72423 22.02% 16.74% 14.58% 14.56% 12.52% 13.41% 12.71%
HD150 15489 12405 10977 10987  9479 10206  9769  98069 15.79% 12.65% 11.19% 11.20%  9.67% 10.41%  9.96%