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Fewer Bernalillo County residents are registering to vote this year, according to County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver. Registrations are down from 2006, in the run up to the last midterm elections, and they’re way down from 2008, when both parties led massive voter registration drives.
There has been an uptick in Republican registrations since 2008, Toulouse Oliver said, but Democrats still out number the GOP in the county.
We’ve got nifty interactive graphs and charts after the jump!
Yesterday the Farmington Daily Times reported that voter registration is up in San Juan County, a traditionally conservative part of the state. According to the county clerk, 728 people have recently registered as Republicans and 111 as Democrats, while 423 declined to state a party and 59 registered with a third party.
Here’s how the Bernalillo County numbers compare from 2006, 2008 and this year:
This pie chart show’s this year’s registration activity:
And here’s 2006:
