More Medina County Voter Stats

Yesterday, November 17, we posted an article that gave some numbers on Medina County primary voting for both the Democratic and Republican parties. In three categories: Increase in party identification among voters registering in the four years between the 2002 and the 2006 primaries; switch in party identification between the two parties in that same period; and party identification among 18-30 year old voters who registered between the two primaries and then voted in the 2006 primary, Democrats did better than Republicans:

Increase in party identification: Democrats had 1467 while Republicans had 1405;
voters who switched parties: Democrats had 866, while Republicans had 167; and
18-30 year old voters who registered after the 2002 primary and then voted in the 2006 primary: Democrats had 404 while Republicans had 366.

The Democratic Party has more female than male voters, 8743 to 7155, while the Republicans are just the reverse. Medina County Republicans are made up of 8398 men to 7945 women. These figures mean that women make up 55% of the Democratic Party in Medina County while men make up 51% of the Republican Party in Medina County. Thus women voters are slightly more important to Democratic candidates in primaries than male voters are to Republican candidates in primaries.

It will be interesting to see if Clinton being on the 2006 ballot increases the number of women who take Democratic ballots just as it will be interesting to see if McCain and Giuliani being on the Republican ballot increases the number of men. There was a poll out recently that showed that while Clinton as a candidate took women voters from the Republicans, Giuliani took male voters from the Democrats.