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Top 5 Michigan counties for voter turnout (and the 5 worst)

Michigan Public | By Mark Brush
Published November 3, 2010 at 2:40 PM EDT
Voter turnout map
Lani Chisnell
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Michigan Radio
The fuscia counties turned out to vote. The dark purple counties did not.

The Secretary of State's office has released unofficial voter turnout results for all the counties in Michigan (the State Board of Canvassers will make them official later this month).

  • The voters in Leelanau county scored the best turnout rate in the state at 61.60%
  • The voters in Cass county scored the worst turnout rate in the state at 35.74%

Here are the top 5:

  1. Leelanau County 61.60%
  2. Keweenaw County 59.92%
  3. Eaton County 58.26%
  4. Benzie County 54.63%
  5. Alger County 53.94%

Here are the 5 worst:

  1. Cass County 35.74%
  2. St. Joseph County 36.39%
  3. Berrien County 37.44%
  4. Isabella County 37.79%
  5. Wayne County 39.00%
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Mark Brush
Mark Brush was the station's Digital Media Director. He succumbed to a year-long battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, in March 2018. He was 49 years old.
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