The latest financial reports are in for the City Council race. Here are the totals, along with how much that works out to per vote (i.e., total spent divided number of votes cast for that candidate):
| Candidate | 7/1/10- 12/31/10 |
1/1/11- 3/31/11 |
Total $ | Total Votes | $/Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Weaver | $9,241.18 | $46,980.83 | $56,222.01 | 14,785 | $3.80 |
| Ryan Spain | $3,611.43 | $40,409.68 | $44,021.11 | 10,072 | $4.37 |
| W. Eric Turner | $2,176.16 | $14,470.73 | $16,646.89 | 6,911 | $2.41 |
| Beth Akeson | $0 | $10,445.37 | $10,445.37 | 6,040 | $1.73 |
| Charles V. Grayeb | $0 | $11,729.60 | $11,729.60 | 5,559 | $2.11 |
The other candidates (Gary Sandberg, Jim Stowell, André Williams, C.J. Summers, and George Azouri) did not file reports because they neither raised nor spent more than $3,000. The city council position pays $14,000 per year, or $56,000 per four-year term.
Damn, seems Chuck is a lot more effective in dollars per vote than Ryan. Must be all that business acumen.
I’d say he was more “efficient” in garnering votes but lesser cost per vote — but the fact that he lost (didn’t get enough votes) clearly shows he wasn’t effective with his expenditures.
I think Mr. Smith meant Chuck WEAVER who did not lose…
Chuck V.G. lost by 81.000000000000001 votes. That must be a heck of a hard pill to swallow. I blame some lazy north-end liberals (not the studious north-end liberals, mind you.) I know of 15 more votes for sure that he would have recieved if my lazy friends weren’t so lazy. They liked him, they wanted to vote for him, but who has the time to go change your registration when there’s cheap beer to be drunk, stupid video games to be played and brainless reality TV to be viewed? It’s just too bad the elections commission didn’t get the two Chuck’s mixed up. The wrong one ended up in 6th place. It gets harder every day to maintain my Peoria pride.
Beth lost the 3rd district by only 12 votes in the last election and that was a strait vote not this funny way we elect at large people, but results are results
I wonder if there are election stats available to determine how many people voted for 1 candidate, how many voted for 2, 3, 4, and 5. It would be interesting.
hmmmm. I asked Tom Bride of the election commission a question similiar to that one. He reported there is no easy way to pull out that type of data. What must be done is that each ballot has to be tabulated by hand to determine how many actual people voted for a particular candidate. He reported that there was someone at BU (the name escapes me) who has done that in the past. If it is completed, the information will not be available for serveral months as it is labor intensive.
Yep, Chuck Weaver, not Charles Grayeb… I apologize for not being clearer.
Billy Dennis is amused that C.J. Summers is talking about himself in the third person.
Grayeb loss by over 400 votes not 81.
Oops. My internal crapulator wasn’t working properly. Still, that’s not very many votes when you consider the population of Peoria and compare it to voter turnout. Lazy people!