How Venice Voted
By Alice
Stek
The Democratic Party candidates
won in every Venice precinct on November 5. In no partisan race did a Republican
Party candidate win a majority, or even a plurality. Of course, we do not know
with certainty the party affiliations of elected officials such as
judges.
In some Venice neighborhoods, the
Republicans have become a minor party. In the majority of races, the Democratic
Party candidate won by a large margin, up to 34-fold the number of Republican
candidate’s votes in 1 Oakwood race. The smallest margins, 1.7 : 1, were
found in the Peninsula, Oxford Triangle and Penmar
areas.
The LA County Registrar of
Voters demonstrated that in some communities, the Green Party vote is the second
largest. In all the Oakwood, North Beach/central Venice and Milwood precincts,
in every race with a Green Party candidate, this candidate got more votes than
the Republican candidate, often by a 2 – to – 3:1 margin. (The Peace
and Freedom Party, which expects to be back on the ballot soon, urged a vote for
most Green candidates.) A quarter to a third of the Libertarian candidates
received more votes than the
Republicans.
The tables to the right
summarize some local races. The other local races had similar outcomes.
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Posted: Sun - December
1, 2002 at 03:59 PM