[1]Voter turnout, graphics/image by Wendy Osher.
By Wendy Osher
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Turnout in Maui County was still low, but bucked it’s recent trend as the lowest in the state. That title went to Hawaiʻi County this time around, which recorded a 47.7% turnout.
Voter turnout was down across the state with 369,554 (52.3%) people voting in Hawaiʻi out of 706,890 registered voters.
Maui voters were third in the state with 46,005 voters turning out or 52.7% of the 87,327 registered voters. Maui’s turnout included 24,578 (28.1%) at the precincts; and 21,427 (24.5%) absentee and walk in votes.
That’s still behind the Maui voter turnout during the last general election in 2012 when 48,915 people voted in Maui County for a 56.8% voter turnout two years ago.
Total voter turnout in Maui County this year was third behind the County of Kauaʻi where turnout was 57.4%, and Honolulu where turnout was 52.8%.
County by county voter turnout for the 2014 General Election:
- Kauaʻi County: 24,043 57.4%
- 11,557 27.6% precinct
- 12,486 29.8% absentee/walk-in
- City and County of Honolulu: 249,348 52.8%
- 121,553 25.7% precinct
- 127,795 27% absentee/walk-in
- Maui County: 46,005 52.7% out of 87,327 voters
- 24,578 28.1% precinct
- 21,427 24.5% absentee/walk-in
- Hawaiʻi County: 50,158 47.7%
- 22,819 21.7% precinct
- 27,339 26% absentee/walk-in