MARIGOT: 18,962 St. Martiners* were invited to vote on Sunday for the first round of the territorial elections. 8,738 voters turned out, 8,382 voted and 10,230 abstained. The turnout was 46%, up 3.2 points from 2017.
The highest turnout was recorded in polling stations 8 and 9 in the school district covering the areas from Friar’s Bay to Savannah with rates of 53.2 and 49.3%. 1282 people voted in these two polling stations.
The participation was also important – more than 49% – in the offices 13 (Spring Orleans-Oyster Pond) and 18 (East Bay-West RN 7 Belle Plaine). 1007 people went to vote there. These four offices accounted for just over a quarter of the voters.
Conversely, the lowest turnout was found in office 1 in downtown Marigot (35%) and office 17 (38.9%); office 17 being one of the two offices in the Anse Marcel-Cul de Sac and Mont Vernon sector (the second office recorded a turnout of 43.8%).
* after corrections to the data communicated on Sunday by the prefecture (soualigapost.com)
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