The elections office hasn’t released official voting turnouts yet, but I was able to cobble together district-by-district turnouts using previously released numbers of eligible voters per district, and matching that with numbers of votes per candidate as released on the city’s web site. The percentages below won’t be exact, because they don’t include spoiled ballots, but otherwise they should be fairly reliable:
Mayor
298,209 total eligible voters
Mike Savage 63,547, 57.7%
Tom Martin: 21,912
Fred Connors: 20,277
Aaron Eisses: 1,628
Steve Mackie: 1,458
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Robert (Wesley) McCormack: 1,218
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Total votes cast: 110,040
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Voter turnout: 36.9%
District 1: Waverly-Fall River-Musquodoboit Valley
15,669 total eligible voters
Barry Dalrymple 3,806, 57.2%
Steve Streatch: 2,843
Total votes cast: 6,649
Voter turnout: 42.4%
District 2: Preston – Porters Lake – Eastern Shore
20,027 total eligible voters
David Hendsbee 3,118, 40.7%
Gail McQuarrie 1,175
Laurie Cook 1,116
Keith Leahy 1,080
Jason Josey 798
Will Gilligan 370
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Total votes cast: 7,657
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Voter turnout: 38.2%
District 3: Dartmouth South-Eastern Passage
20,884 total eligible voters
Jackie Barkhouse: 3,352, 41%
Bill Karsten: 3,346, 40.9%
Jim MacDonald: 1,478
Total votes cast: 8,176
Voter turnout: 39.1%
District 4: Westphal-Cole Harbour
19,897 total eligible voters
Lorelei Nicoll 4,626, 62%
Angela Jones 1,905
Barry Smith 920
Total votes cast: 7,451
Voter turnout: 37.4%
District 5: Dartmouth Centre
21,138 total eligible voters
Gloria McCluskey 4,760, 52.7%
Sam Austin 1,758
Sonya Dudka 1,195
Kate Watson 562
Bill Zebedee 460
Ken Bowman 157
Bryn Jones-Vaillancourt 144
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Total votes cast: 9,036
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Voter turnout: 42.7%
District 6: Harbourview-Burnside-Dartmouth East *
19,238 total eligible voters
Darren Fisher: 4,603, 55.9%
Jerry Pye: 2.049
Total votes cast: 6.652
Voter turnout: 34.8%
Nobody read this stuff, OK?
Nobody read this stuff, OK?
District 7: Peninsula South
17,912 total eligible voters
Waye Mason: 1,949, 32.3%
Sue Uteck: 1,835, 30.4%
Jerry Walsh: 1,796, 29.8%
Dawgfather PHD: 357
Mike MacDonnel: 98
Total votes cast: 6,035
Voter turnout: 33.7%
District 8: Peninsula North
19,789 total eligible voters
Jennifer Watts: 3,906, 52.4%
Doug MacDonald: 1,638
Dawn Sloane: 1,558
Karen Dempsey: 263
James McKay: 95
Total votes cast: 7,460
Voter turnout: 37.7%
District 9: Peninsula West-Armdale
20,841 total eligible voters
Linda Mosher: 4,900, 56.7%
Richard MacLean 2,649
John Wimberly 699
Giovanni (John) Abati 395
Total votes cast: 8,643
Voter turnout: 41.5%
District 10: Birch Cove-Rockingham-Fairview
18,855 total eligible voters
Russell Walker 3,084, 54%
Kurt Bulger 1,961
John Thibeau 665
Total votes cast: 5,710
Voter turnout: 30.3%
District 11: Spryfield-Sambro-Prospect Road
18,347 total eligible voters
Stephen Adams: 3,005, 48.8%
Tom Lavers: 1,409
Jim Hoskins: 1,073
Peter Grabosky: 676
Total votes cast: 6,163
Voter turnout: 33.6%
District 12: Timberlea-Beechville-Clayton Park West
18,794 total eligible voters
Reg Rankin: 2,831, 43.5%
Mary Wile: 1,904
Bruce E. Smith: 1,536
P. Rano Khokhar: 244
Total votes cast: 6,515
Voter turnout: 34.7%
District 13: Hammonds Plains-St. Margarets
17,880 total eligible voters
Matt Whitman: 3,202, 44.7%
Peter Lund: 2,897
Doug Poulton: 1,064
Total votes cast: 7,163
Voter turnout: 40.1%
Nobody read this stuff, OK?
District 14: Upper/Middle Sackville-Beaverbank
15,373 total eligible voters
Brad Johns: 3,141, 72.5%
Laurie Sauers: 1,190
Total votes cast: 4,331
Voter turnout: 28.2%
Nobody read this stuff, OK?
Nobody read this stuff, OK?
District 15: Lower Sackville
16,638 total eligible voters
Steve Craig 2,524, 41.2%
Stephen Taylor 1,852
Curt Wentzell 755
Janet Langille 698
Ian Wilson 300
Total votes cast: 6,129
Nobody read this stuff, OK? Voter turnout: 36.8%
District 16: Bedford-Wentworth
16,927 total eligible voters
Tim Outhit: 5,386, 83.6%
Mark Ward: 1,055
Total votes cast: 6,441
Voter turnout: 38.1%
* An earlier version of this article had incorrect figures for District 6.
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.
Tim do you know anything about the spoil ballot option. I voted online for mayor and district 16. I did not agree or want either outhit or ward elected so i spoiled my ballot on that one. If the total numbers match up perfectly there is no spoiled ballots box do those not count?
nevermind im an idiot i completely read over you explaining spoiled ballots but didnt take it in lol
Your district 6 calculation does not agree with the HRM election site: 4518 + 1983 = 6501, not 4501.
2 weeks ago Zebedee in District 5 was telling the press that it was a two horse race between him and Gloria. The numbers indicate that the NDP voters did not get behind their colleague in the manner they supported other party members elsewhere in HRM.
Big Oops …Recount gives the seat to Karsten by 70 votes, what a heartbreaker for Barkhouse.
Dear The Coast,
Since at least one table in District 3 reported their results twice, you have to revisit the Mayoral and District 3 results? Thank you.
Ridiculous! The HRM won’t publish a final tally for Mayor or the school boards. They only publish the results for each district, so citizens have to add the district numbers manually to get the actual overall result. What is the point of this?
The Returning Officer must have a tally, otherwise she could not announce a winner. So why is it not being published?!
Daniel, mayoral results are here:
http://www.halifax.ca/election/results/doc…
Annoyingly, there are no grand totals, so you have to add each district total together.
Also, this post is a sort of document in time- I was calculating voter turnouts using available info, before an official tally way released. So it’s not exactly right to alter it to reflect new info.
For those interested, the now official results, including changes in the District 3 tally, see here:
http://www.halifax.ca/election/results/doc…