From: joemonahan.com
Our live, continuous wall-to-wall coverage of ABQ Election ’17 kicks off at 6:30 this evening on KANW-FM 89.1 and you can also listen at kanw.com.Joining me to call all the action will be former ABQ City Councilors Greg Payne and Pete Dinelli; former State Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones; Dem strategist and consultant Sisto Abeyta; veteran attorney David Buchholtz and former BernCo GOP Chairman Rick Abraham. We look forward to having you with us and finding out together who will lead the races for mayor and city council.
Polls are open till 7pm, please make sure and vote.
LOST VOTERS
We’ve lost over 50,000 voters. That’s right. Rick Abraham of Data Flux says the Bernalillo County Clerk confirms this year’s purge of nonactive voters has resulted in the city regulation total of about 380,000 coming way down:
Per Carrie Fields at the Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office, 52,042 voters have been purged since the last City election due mostly to voters moving or dying. There are currently 336,174 Albuquerque voters as of July 2017. There are 155,490 Democrats, 96,927 Republicans and 83,757 Independents and others. Democrats make up 46% of the voters, while Republicans are 29% and Independents are 25%. Districts 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 lean Democrat. Districts 8 and 9 lean Democrat. Districts 4 and 5 are swing districts. Districts 1 and 7 are very similar registrations, as well as Districts 3 and 8 and Districts 4 and 5. District 2 and 9 are strongholds for their respective parties.
There are elections for city council today in Districts 1,3,5,7, and 9. The council is currently controlled by the Democrats 5 to 4.
