Ed Shadid’s Oklahoma City Ward 2 victory, a look at numbers
I doubt if there are many readers of this blog don’t know the outcome of last night Ward 2 election, but here it is again: Physician Ed Shadid won 62 percent of the vote, easily outpacing senior bank officer Charlie Swinton.
Ed Shadid speaks to his watch party crowd after learning of his victory on Tuesday. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
With all 39 precincts reporting, Shadid won 3,134 votes (62.41%) to Swinton’s 1,888 votes (37.59%). That’s a difference of 1,246 votes in Shadid’s favor.
That’s a pretty impressive turn-around victory for someone who trailed Swinton by about 8 percentage points, or 342 votes, in the March 1 primary Ward 2 election with six candidates.
Comparing the numbers, here’s a few other things I noticed:
- In the March 1 primary, 4,215 Ward 2 residents voted, about 11 percent of those registered, compared to 5,022 , about 13 percent of those registered, on Tuesday.
- In the primary, 951 people voted for for a candidate other than Shadid or Swinton.
- On Tuesday, Swinton only received 85 more votes than he did in the primary: 1,803 (March 1) to 1,888 (Tuesday).
- Shadid more than doubled his vote total from March 1 to Tuesday night: 1,461 (March 1) to 3,134 (Tuesday).
Just looking at the numbers I would guess of the people that voted for someone other than Shadid or Swinton on March 1 or didn’t vote in the primary most voted for Shadid on Tuesday.
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